Paul Auster Quotes
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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It's impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place - they inform us and make us who we are.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
