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

• To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Collaboration

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she’s just like everyone else, but I like to think that maybe she carries within her something magical and free.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Magical

• Vince missed a left-handed lay-in and all of a sudden we looked like a team that didn't have confidence. I'm really, really disappointed that we broke down defensively.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Confidence
  • Missed
  • Defensively

• 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