12 Quotes by Sam Wasson

So much of writing,” he said, “is trying to avoid facing it.

Those without color – say, dressed in all black – can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to watch without being watched. It’s the choice of someone who needs not to attract. Someone self-sufficient. Someone more distant, less knowable, and ultimately, mysterious. Powerful.

The baby boom produced a fresh batch of American youngsters – teenagers they were called – and they were suddenly coming of age. But until Roman Holiday, it was hard for them to see themselves in the movies. What Audrey offered – namely to the girls – was a glimpse of someone who lived by her own code of interests, not her mother’s, and who did so with a wholesome independence of spirit.