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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
— Paul Auster
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
— Paul Auster
How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?
— Paul Auster
No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him. That
— Paul Auster
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
— Paul Auster
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
— Paul Auster
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
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
— Paul Auster
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
— Paul Auster
The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old.
— Paul Auster
We are all aliens to ourselves.
— Paul Auster
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
— Paul Auster
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
— Paul Auster
Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.
— Paul Auster
The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
— Paul Auster
As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
— Paul Auster
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.
— Paul Auster
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
— Paul Auster
Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?
— Paul Auster
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
— Paul Auster
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
— Paul Auster
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
— Paul Auster
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
— Paul Auster
You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
— Paul Auster
In certain waya it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything.
— Paul Auster
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.
— Paul Auster
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
— Paul Auster
I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I questionwhether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. — Paul Auster
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[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.
— Paul Auster
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
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
— Paul Auster
All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.
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It was. It will never be again. Remember.
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Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away.
— Paul Auster
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
Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.
— Paul Auster
The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.
— Paul Auster
But even the facts do not always tell the truth
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You can survive only if nothing is necessary to you
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
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I've made my nothing, and now I've got to live in it.
— Paul Auster
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
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In the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.
— Paul Auster
Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.
— Paul Auster
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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As says who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
— Paul Auster
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
— Paul Auster
Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
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