Paul Auster Quotes
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I write novels and other things.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
