--- title: "4 Paul-auster Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Paul-auster quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Paul-auster sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/t-j-klune-1425_paul-auster_i-groaned-you-set-me-up-and-it-was-surpr_1651.jpg" --- > [“I groaned. “You set me up!” “And it was surprisingly easy.” Dad laughed. “Geez. I don’t know how you weren’t kidnapped as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-j-klune/i-groaned-you-set-me-up-and-it-was-surprisingly-easy-dad-laughed-geez/) [T.J. Klune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-j-klune/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/t-j-klune-1425_paul-auster_i-groaned-you-set-me-up-and-it-was-surpr_1651.jpg) > [“It was. It will never be again. Remember.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/it-was-it-will-never-be-again-remember/) [Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c0/paul-auster-351_literature_it-was-it-will-never-be-again-remember-2_271777.jpg) > [“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/we-are-not-native-we-have-no-generations-of-americans-behind-us-we/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65b/don-delillo-294_american-literature_we-are-not-native-we-have-no-generations_1814567.jpg) > [“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/yes-a-language-that-will-at-last-say-what-we-have-to-say-for-our/) [Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/paul-auster-351_language_yes-a-language-that-will-at-last-say-wha_2808029.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paul-auster/#itemlist", "name": "Paul-auster Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I groaned. “You set me up!” “And it was surprisingly easy.” Dad laughed. “Geez. I don’t know how you weren’t kidnapped as a child by a stranger who offered you candy. You’re so gullible.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "T.J. 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