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Been Quotes by Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed…
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
- What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
- Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been…
- The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been…
- Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
- Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,…
- But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
- I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle