Paul Auster Quotes

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Paul Auster

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Saintly

• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Funny
  • Happens
  • Canada

• Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Find
  • Happens
  • Tomorrow

• With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Success
  • Freedom
  • Able

• 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.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • People
  • Peace
  • Advice

• No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

  

  Doris Day
  • Up
  • Matter
  • Happens

• Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Cold
  • Wind

• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Door
  • Stories
  • Mysterious

• 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.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• 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!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• 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.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Character
  • Happens

• The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • Way
  • Stories

• Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stories
  • Animals
  • Directions

• 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.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Years

• '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stories
  • Littles
  • Ends

• I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Love
  • Nice

• As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

  

  Theresa May
  • Changed
  • Policy
  • Torture

• I've gotten into such weird jobs just by word of mouth... Like I didn't try to be an accessory designer, but I had a friend working at the company and I needed a job so that's where I ended up.

  

  Nicolas Cowan
  • Job
  • Need
  • Accessory

• Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Stories
  • Happens
  • Able