Paul Auster Quotes

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Paul Auster

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • High
  • Words
  • Actions

• In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Big
  • Early

• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jeans

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • School
  • Training

• I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Will
  • Result
  • Judged

• People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • God
  • Difficulty

• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.

  

  Bruce Anthony Johannesson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Science

• I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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  • Writing
  • Money

• The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children.

  

  Craig Kielburger
  • Children
  • Change
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• You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Story
  • Financial
  • Gain

• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Spiritual
  • Prayer
  • Period

• I can't believe it. I've worked hard while I've been with Lance for the last six years and it's been an amazing run.

  

  George Hincapie
  • Years
  • Run
  • Worked

• Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

  

  Paul Auster
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