Paul Auster Quotes
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.
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I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill. Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill
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He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.
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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
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We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
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I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?
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I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.
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Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
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Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.
