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 deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.
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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
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We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us.
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The town of Morehead had a business district shaped like a funnel. The funnel's mouth was corroded with low buildings of stone and wooden fronts.
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I look in the mirror, my only opponent
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
