"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because……" — Paul Auster
"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 seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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Paul Auster
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173 Quotes by Paul Auster
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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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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
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The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the…
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
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