Paul Auster Quotes
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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Respectable people... What bastards!
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I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.
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Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
