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Some 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…
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however…
- 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.
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we…
- 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…
- That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
- 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…
- Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there,…
- Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People…
- Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
- Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding.…
- 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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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja
- Saw some really bad porn said no guy ever. — Nikhil Saluja
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch