Question and Answer Session Quotes
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Source: Question and Answer Session
Speaker: Helen Keller
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Context
This line was spoken by Helen Keller in a question-and-answer session in the early 1920s, recorded by biographer Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (1980).
Celebrities today do all sorts of things for money: pose for magazine covers, speak at some public event, write memoirs, release obscene private tapes. The 1920s weren't that different. So when Helen Keller needed some cash, she and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, toured the country answering questions.
In one memorable Q&A session, Helen was asked, "Do you desire your sight more than anything else in the world?" And she said "No! No! I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light." Very inspirational.
Where you've heard it
Hopefully from your BFF.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
This is just a nice, inoffensive quote about friendship. Nothing pretentious about that.