Paul Auster Quotes
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
