Paul Auster Quotes
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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Our song is the slamming screen door,Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window.When we're on the phone and you talk real slow'Cause it's late and your mama don't know.Our song is the way you laugh,The first date 'man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have.'And when I got home, before I said amenAsking God if he could play it again.
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I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’
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There's a period in one's life when beauty is very important. For me, it was high school. But I had a grandmother who kept saying, 'Handsome is as handsome does.' That's always stuck with me.
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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
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Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.
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Coming from a YouTube perspective, a lot of times you kind of limit yourself and think, 'Oh, artists from the real world wouldn't want to work with someone who's made their career on YouTube.' But more and more, I'm realizing that artists from both sides are learning that we can benefit from each other.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
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I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
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You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
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My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
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Art is not meant to change the world.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
