Paul Auster Quotes
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.
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All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
