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Story Quotes by Paul Auster
- 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…
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen…
- 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…
- When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as…
- The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
- The truth of the story lies in the details.
- The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
- 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…
- But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
- As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
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