Paul Auster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.
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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
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I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
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I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
