Paul Auster - Happen Quotes

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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

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When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you've gone down fighting the good fight.

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Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

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You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

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We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

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Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

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It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

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