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Say Quotes by Paul Auster
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an…
- 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.
- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
- When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all…
- I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's…
- Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing…
- Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
- Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small…
- There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash