« All Them Quotes · Paul Auster's Page
Them 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…
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great…
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
- While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read…
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
- Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
- 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…
- 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…
- At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has…
- Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that…
- Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and…
- Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those…
- 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 all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to…
- The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those…
- The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Feelings are the one of the most important cause behind the weakness or strength of a person. Be strong utilise them as… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare