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 love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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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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Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.
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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
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I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
