Paul Auster Short Quotes

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What man is strong enough to reject the possibility of hope?

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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

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Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.

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Once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

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It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

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You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

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That's what makes his story so impossible,.... Because he's told me the truth.

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No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

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What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

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All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

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Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us.

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I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

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In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

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I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

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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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I didn't say I was afraid of dying,... I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference.

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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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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

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The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

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