Paul Auster Quotes
Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
