Paul Auster Quotes

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Paul Auster

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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.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Like
  • First
  • New

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Earth

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• 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.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • God
  • Real
  • Home

• I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Life
  • Important
  • School

• 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?

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• 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.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work

• I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Home
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Dad

• If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Done

• We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

  

  Emilio Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Easy
  • Fame
  • Figures

• Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

  

  Geoffrey Barraclough
  • Going
  • Anything
  • Consider

• The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence

  

  Cecil Roth
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Spirit

• Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

  

  Paul Auster