Paul Auster Quotes
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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Broadway is really my life.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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To taste fully is to live fully.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.
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No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
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In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.
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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
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I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.
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Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
