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Paul Auster quotes: [...] one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success. [...] one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.
Paul Auster quotes: The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
Paul Auster quotes: Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Paul Auster quotes: The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
Paul Auster quotes: One very big album, bound in expensive leather with a gold-stamped title on the cover - This is our life: The Austers - was totally blank inside. One very big album, bound in expensive leather with a gold-stamped title on the cover - This is our life: The Austers - was totally blank inside.
Paul Auster quotes: Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world. Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Paul Auster quotes: How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event? How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?
Paul Auster quotes: The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine. The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
Paul Auster quotes: She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful. She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.
Paul Auster quotes: A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd. A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.
Paul Auster quotes: What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook? What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook?
Paul Auster quotes: Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word. Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
Paul Auster quotes: Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts. Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts.
Paul Auster quotes: As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out. As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.
Paul Auster quotes: But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been. But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
Paul Auster quotes: Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
Paul Auster quotes: Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
Paul Auster quotes: When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.
Paul Auster quotes: It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.
Paul Auster quotes: I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.
Paul Auster quotes: Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
Paul Auster quotes: If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself. If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.
Paul Auster quotes: Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children. Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children.
Paul Auster quotes: There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
Paul Auster quotes: We are all aliens to ourselves. We are all aliens to ourselves.
Paul Auster quotes: If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.
Paul Auster quotes: Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am ... Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am ...
Paul Auster quotes: Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years. Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
Paul Auster quotes: Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
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. The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
Paul Auster quotes: All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
Paul Auster quotes: I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still. I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.
Paul Auster quotes: Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said. Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said.
Paul Auster quotes: It was something like the word 'it' in the phrase 'it is raining' or 'it is night'. What that 'it' referred to Quinn had never known It was something like the word 'it' in the phrase 'it is raining' or 'it is night'. What that 'it' referred to Quinn had never known
Paul Auster quotes: You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books ... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books ... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
Paul Auster quotes: And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man. And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.
Paul Auster quotes: I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
Paul Auster quotes: I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months. I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
Paul Auster quotes: I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself. I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
Paul Auster quotes: I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here was my chance to set out on a fresh course I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here was my chance to set out on a fresh course
Paul Auster quotes: A pulverized apple and a pulverized orange are finally the same thing, aren't they? You A pulverized apple and a pulverized orange are finally the same thing, aren't they? You
Paul Auster quotes: A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.
Paul Auster quotes: Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant. Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.
Paul Auster quotes: The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others. The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.
Paul Auster quotes: Translators are the shadow heroes of literature. Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.
Paul Auster quotes: My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them. My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
Paul Auster quotes: Dismantling the architecture of my discontent Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
Paul Auster quotes: Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
Paul Auster quotes: You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you. You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
Paul Auster quotes: There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time. There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.
Paul Auster quotes: It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
Paul Auster quotes: The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public. The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public.
Paul Auster quotes: I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am. I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
Paul Auster quotes: I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
Paul Auster quotes: I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster quotes: No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
Paul Auster quotes: Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away. Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away.
Paul Auster quotes: Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another. Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.
Paul Auster quotes: If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
Paul Auster quotes: Once you fell in love with her, youloved her until the day you died. Once you fell in love with her, you
loved her until the day you died.
Paul Auster quotes: I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I questionwhether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question
whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
Paul Auster quotes: I guess the important thing for young writers is to read. I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
Paul Auster quotes: Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other
Paul Auster quotes: Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we? Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
Paul Auster quotes: I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
Paul Auster quotes: I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan. I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
Paul Auster quotes: When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream. When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.
Paul Auster quotes: I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you. I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.
Paul Auster quotes: The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.
Paul Auster quotes: I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else. I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
Paul Auster quotes: Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there.
Paul Auster quotes: I like the sound a typewriter makes. I like the sound a typewriter makes.
Paul Auster quotes: The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
Paul Auster quotes: I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar. I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
Paul Auster quotes: I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
Paul Auster quotes: Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
Paul Auster quotes: All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Paul Auster quotes: Real love ... is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it. Real love ... is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
Paul Auster quotes: We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible. We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.
Paul Auster quotes: By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was. By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.
Paul Auster quotes: The people closest to him had learned to accept this absence,to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being. The people closest to him had learned to accept this absence,to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being.
Paul Auster quotes: In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister. In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.
Paul Auster quotes: I really have no interest in myself. I really have no interest in myself.
Paul Auster quotes: Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
Paul Auster quotes: But even the facts do not always tell the truth But even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster quotes: What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
Paul Auster quotes: As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
Paul Auster quotes: There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Paul Auster quotes: For no word can be written without first having been seen For no word can be written without first having been seen
Paul Auster quotes: Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things. Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
Paul Auster quotes: The truth of the story lies in the details. The truth of the story lies in the details.
Paul Auster quotes: Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great. Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.
Paul Auster quotes: Just think it, and chances are it will happen. Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
Paul Auster quotes: Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
Paul Auster quotes: I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say. I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.
Paul Auster quotes: We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen. We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
Paul Auster quotes: Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played. Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.
Paul Auster quotes: What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Paul Auster quotes: People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Paul Auster quotes: It was. It will never be again. Remember. It was. It will never be again. Remember.

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