Paul Auster Quotes
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.
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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
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Jesus Christ was accused of being a murderer in his time
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
