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You 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…
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
- 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…
- If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
- You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time,…
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an…
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
- I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that…
- Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and…
- I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide