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Things Quotes by Paul Auster
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over…
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
- 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…
- 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.…
- Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the…
- 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…
- We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
- It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
- 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…
- For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had suddenly lost their…
- 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…
- You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom…
- 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…
- Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within…
More Things Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- If I were an actor I could be someone, someone who'd always know the right things to say. But as soon as… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle