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.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
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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.
