"It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality."

-- Ellen Burstyn

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“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”
“The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.”
“I never take myself too seriously.”
“I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.”
“It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.”
“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage
“Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.”

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