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.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Flirtatious

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Reflect

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Married
  • Jealous

• 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.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Clubs
  • Jeans
  • Georgia

• 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.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Bee

• 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.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

  

  Alan Paton
  • May
  • Fear
  • Sorrow

• You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Team
  • Play
  • Sports

• A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Doe

• 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!

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Men
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Why
  • Career

• Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Gay

• I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.

  

  Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
  • Song
  • Band
  • Voice

• On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Energy
  • Harmony
  • Written

• I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Children
  • Art
  • Wife

• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Community
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Written
  • Degrees
  • Difficulty