"We are continually shaped by the forces of…" — Paul Auster
"We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence."
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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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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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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I…
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More Coincidence Quotes
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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I don't believe in coincidence.
— Juliette Binoche
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is…
— Bjork
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not…
— Erma Bombeck
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation…
— Walther Bothe
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
— Isabel Allende
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
— Harlan Coben
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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a…
— Adam Ant
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
— Richard Dawkins
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