Paul Auster Quotes
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Paul Auster
Quotes to Explore
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
Marat Safin
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
Naomi Wolf
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
Nate Powell
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
Taylor Swift
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
Northrop Frye
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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.
Matthew Desmond
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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
Caroline Knapp
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
Liu Xiaobo
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Paul Auster
