You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done! — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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