Paul Auster Quotes
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.
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When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
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But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
