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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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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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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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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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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Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
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Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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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.
