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.Paul Auster
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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.
Ralph Steadman -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
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.
Natasha Lyonne -
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
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.
Pankaj Patel -
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.
Viktor Orban -
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
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.
Laura Miller
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
Kapil Sibal -
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Felix Dennis -
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters -
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
Orison Swett Marden -
India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
Vikram Patel
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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
E. Lockhart -
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'
Errol White -
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
Seth Godin -
Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.
Ben Doller -
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
Paul Auster