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Inspirational Quotes by Paul Auster
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are…
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
- If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
- There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
- I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
- I like the sound a typewriter makes.
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
- In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
- Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
- The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
- We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes…
- Every man is the author of his own life.
- No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
- Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
- Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
- I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento