"Every generation always thinks it was better before,……" — Paul Auster
"Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years."
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173 Quotes by Paul Auster
Paul Auster has 173 quotes on this site.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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More Always Thinks Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
— Honore de Balzac
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
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I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But…
— Gisele Bundchen
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him,…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word,…
— Sophocles
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Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the…
— Rajneesh
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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
— William Rounseville Alger
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Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly…
— Jet Black
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The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix
— Michael Frost
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about…
— Richard Rorty
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