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Mean Quotes by Paul Auster
- I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
- I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not…
- 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.…
- In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and…
- Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle