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Moments Quotes by Paul Auster

14 Moments quotes by Paul Auster

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When you pause to consider the tiny beats that shape a life, Paul Auster offers just enough snippets to spark a quiet contemplation. This modest set of fourteen quotes gathers his take on those fleeting instants, giving you a concise glimpse into his perspective.

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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

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History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character…

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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our…

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“Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes. Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or,…

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The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three…

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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That…

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Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of…

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In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book…

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Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever…

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He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he…

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My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I…

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Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies,…

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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept…

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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

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“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could…

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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

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Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

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People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say…

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I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we…

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Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

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The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some…

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“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect…

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“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”

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