Quadriplegics Quotes

• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

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  Chuck Close

  Portraits   Firsts   Recognition  

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• I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—

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  Jojo Moyes

  Suicidal   Son   Drunk  

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

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  Paul David Tripp

  Moral   Sin   Quadriplegics  

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• Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

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  Chuck Close

  Father   Important   Age  

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• People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.

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  Anne Finger

  Divorce   People   Mind  

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