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From Quotes by Paul Auster
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are…
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So…
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
- I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its…
- Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have…
- Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.…
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
- 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…
- I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what…
- To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.
- He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of…
- Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in…
- No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
- In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
- 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…
- We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to…
- I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
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