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Paul Auster Quotes

Paul Auster quotes

American Author, Writer February 3, 1947

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Paul Auster quote: "One should never underestimate the power of books."
One should never underestimate the power of books. Paul Auster
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day. Paul Auster
There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see. Paul Auster
Paul Auster quote: "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
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us. Paul Auster
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. Paul Auster
Paul Auster quote: "Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be..."
Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashedagainst the stones. Paul Auster
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Paul Auster
Paul Auster quote: "As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story..."
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. Paul Auster
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore. Paul Auster
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. Paul Auster
when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and thetongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decidesto open that mouth and speak. Paul Auster
Paul Auster quote: "To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body."
To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. Paul Auster
They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing. Paul Auster
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

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