Paul Auster Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I write novels and other things.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.
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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. (p. 73)
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I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
