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

• They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Able

• People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Music
  • Quality

• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Artist

• Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

  

  Noga Alon
  • Analysis
  • Mathematicians
  • Paranoia

• Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood
  • Hope
  • Energy

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

  

  Paul Auster
  • Stories
  • Happens
  • Able