Paul Auster Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.
