Paul Auster Quotes
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
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I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
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There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
