Paul Auster Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
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It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
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The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
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Fiction creating reality.
