Paul Auster Quotes
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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I worked my butt off.
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On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.
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I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.
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Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.
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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.
