Paul Auster Quotes
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
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If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
