Category: Lucy Grealy

Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.

Lucy Grealy

I once thought that when you understood something, it was with you forever. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all of our lives to remember the most basic things.

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Post date May 16, 2012
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I once thought that when you understood something, it was with you forever. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all of our lives to remember the most basic things.