There's a quality of legend ...

There\'s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
 Diane Arbus

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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
 Diane Arbus
When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
 Diane Arbus
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
 Diane Arbus
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
 Diane Arbus
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.
 Diane Arbus