Paul Auster Quotes

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

Paul Auster

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• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Where

• When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Chance
  • Bigs

• Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Light

• Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Why
  • Sometimes

• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Live
  • Die

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Care
  • Trump
  • Speech

• Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Youth

• I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Kids
  • City

• Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

  

  Andrew Jackson Downing
  • People
  • Cities
  • Parks

• Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

  

  Euripides
  • Mind
  • Honest
  • No Friend

• Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Chance
  • Teach
  • Painter

• We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Cities
  • Walks
  • Outsiders