Paul Auster Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
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A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.
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Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.
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God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.
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I'm 24, so I'll go out and, yeah, have a few drinks and dance - I love to dance - and have a good time, but I like to do other things, too. I like going to the beach and reading and hiking.
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To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
