"To feel estranged from language is to lose…" — Paul Auster

"To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body."

— 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…
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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