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World Quotes by Paul Auster
- There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much…
- 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…
- Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can…
- Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
- Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of…
- Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have…
- Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I…
- He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of…
- You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
- To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
- I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani