Paul Auster Quotes

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Paul Auster

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• I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Mom
  • Hard
  • Accent

• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • You
  • Air

• 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

• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • Think
  • Man

• 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

• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hand

• Work hard and don’t give up…a lot of luck is involved as well, so a strong will is important too.

  

  Natalie Horler Cascada
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Give Up

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Work
  • Picture

• No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

  

  Paul Auster