"I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Invisibility Quotes

“A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."”
“At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.”
“Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.”

Source : Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)
“Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
“All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.41, Open Road Media
“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.”
“No yesterdays on the road.”
“Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.”

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