"Wounds are an essential part of life, and……" — Paul Auster
"Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man."
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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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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot…
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
— Leo Tolstoy
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear…
— Rajneesh
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary…
— Gaston Bachelard
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A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to…
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You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to…
— James E. Faust
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A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in…
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From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what…
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