Paul Auster Quotes
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Quotes to Explore
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
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I am not a normal man.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
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Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of things, the logic of things. That's why I don't get that much involved in politics directly.
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Unfortunately, because of the way the stories have played over the last few days, I have decided that I am becoming a distraction, and therefore I have asked President Bush to withdraw my name for secretary of labor.
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I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
