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 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

• You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

  

  Euripides
  • Friendship
  • Sorrows
  • Joys

• We have encouraged all entries to incorporate music. We have 52 entries -- everything from bands to homemade floats, professional floats and walkers.

  

  Margaret Young
  • Music
  • Professional
  • Floats

• The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Person
  • Influence
  • Example

• In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.

  

  Anjan Sundaram
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Find

• Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

  

  Paul Auster