Paul Auster Quotes
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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I love what I do.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.
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Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.
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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
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I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.
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There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
