Paul Auster Quotes
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
Quotes to Explore
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.
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I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.
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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.
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My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
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When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
