Paul Auster Quotes

I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.

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• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stop

• A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Children
  • Experience

• Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • May
  • Make
  • Envy

• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Artist

• There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Black
  • Jesus
  • Deep

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Words
  • Never
  • Thought

• You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Quality
  • Consider
  • Cargo

• After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Wife

• I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Needs
  • Novel
  • Stealing