Paul Auster Quotes

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Paul Auster

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Life
  • World
  • Friends

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Stage
  • Elements

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Much
  • Than

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Youth

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Experience
  • Hate
  • Daughter

• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Women
  • Picture

• I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Hate