"The pictures do not lie, but neither do……" — Paul Auster
"The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence."
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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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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has…
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
— John Adams
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a…
— Gary Bauer
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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