All Paul Auster Quotes
- Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and… Book
- As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. Believe
- When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow,… Act
- What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. Avoid
- The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was… Alive
- He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he… Any
- To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and… Becomes
- Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those… Able
- Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People… Betty
- For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had suddenly lost their… Aesthetic
- Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak… Almost Pointless
- but even the facts do not always tell the truth Always Tell
- Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out… Alone
- Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was… Age
- We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even… Accept
- You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom… All
- Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music… Begin
- and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember… Endings
- Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. Cannot Become
- you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you Funny