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“Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even!”
Amanda, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Context: Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!
“Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.”
Source: Bone Gap
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
Source: Saving Francesca

“Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.”
Reply to T. E. Lawrence who complained of press attention.
Quoted by Harry Kessler in his diary, 14 November 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=y_BJt918BHoC
1920s