Paul Auster Quotes
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I have a couture body.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.
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I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
