"Our lifelong certainties about the world can be……" — Paul Auster
"Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second."
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin…
— Salman Rushdie
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to…
— Bridget Riley
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your…
— Unknown Author
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom,…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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