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Way Quotes by Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of…
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get…
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however…
- Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick…
- I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a…
- 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 real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
- As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
- 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.…
- 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…
- In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and…
- Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the…
- 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…
- Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,…
- Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something…
- When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out…
- Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was…
- 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…
- Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
- I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
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