Paul Auster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.
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Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
