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 have written stories since I was a child.
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
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No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
