"For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Invisible Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“Live today like there's no tomorrow!”
“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.”
“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.”

Source : "Shadowlands". Biography, Drama, Romance, 1994.
“We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.”

Source : Paul Robeson (2001). “The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939”, Wiley
“I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”
“What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?”
“It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when people think about the movie when they go home, they're like, "That's weird. He's maybe crazy. He's talking to a dog the whole time."”
“Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.”

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