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title: "2 Desk Quotes By Rosemary Mahoney"
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> [It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/it-s-rare-that-i-m-able-to-get-to-my-desk-in-the-morning-without/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

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> [I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/i-for-one-find-writing-excruciating-some-mornings-as-i-m-on-my-way-to/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

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## More by Rosemary Mahoney

> [Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/though-my-grandmother-had-picked-up-modern-ideas-in-america-she-still/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/we-always-think-well-for-a-person-who-s-blind-it-must-be-an-amazing/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/it-s-rare-that-i-m-able-to-get-to-my-desk-in-the-morning-without/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/i-am-like-a-security-camera-ever-on-the-watch-the-furtive-quality-of/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/my-mother-had-seven-children-in-seven-years-no-twins-she-also-had-a/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/when-sighted-people-cover-their-eyes-or-find-themselves-in-a-dark/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/if-one-person-in-a-group-of-ten-is-missing-the-tip-of-his-little/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/in-a-likely-story-i-wanted-to-recreate-the-events-the-mood-and-the/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/when-i-was-a-senior-in-high-school-i-went-to-ireland-to-study-irish/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/sight-is-a-slick-and-overbearing-autocrat-trumpeting-its-prodigal/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/my-mother-had-faith-in-me-had-more-faith-in-me-than-i-had-in-myself/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/i-grew-up-in-new-england-at-the-edge-of-the-atlantic-and-have-for/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/i-m-very-curious-about-the-world-foreign-cultures/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/china-was-not-at-all-what-i-expected-it-to-be-i-had-an-image-of-china/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

> [Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-mahoney/americans-generally-associate-boats-with-leisure-vastly-less/)

[Rosemary Mahoney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-mahoney/)

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