Paul Auster quote: "Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden."

Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground...
PAUL AUSTER

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

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the nex...
PAUL AUSTER

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
PAUL AUSTER

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
PAUL AUSTER

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just ...
PAUL AUSTER

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's n...
PAUL AUSTER

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes ...
PAUL AUSTER

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
PAUL AUSTER

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and t...
PAUL AUSTER

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
PAUL AUSTER

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, ...
PAUL AUSTER

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, ...
PAUL AUSTER

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the...
PAUL AUSTER

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consi...
PAUL AUSTER

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
PAUL AUSTER

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

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don&...
PAUL AUSTER

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does...
PAUL AUSTER

I like the sound a typewriter makes.
PAUL AUSTER

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
PAUL AUSTER

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
PAUL AUSTER

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
PAUL AUSTER

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always in...
PAUL AUSTER

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to...
PAUL AUSTER

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

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in contr...
PAUL AUSTER

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, ...
PAUL AUSTER

The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. ...
PAUL AUSTER

You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind
won't let you.
PAUL AUSTER

It's just another word for the same thing. You want to believe in some hidden purpose. You're trying...
PAUL AUSTER

Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a strange...
PAUL AUSTER

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, o...
PAUL AUSTER

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because ...
PAUL AUSTER

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you ...
PAUL AUSTER

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the b...
PAUL AUSTER

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how ...
PAUL AUSTER

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demora...
PAUL AUSTER

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I...
PAUL AUSTER

[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels...
PAUL AUSTER

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especiall...
PAUL AUSTER

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure p...
PAUL AUSTER

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be e...
PAUL AUSTER

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typ...
PAUL AUSTER

الظلام وحده يحظى بالقدرة على جعل الإنسان يفتح قلبه للد�...
PAUL AUSTER

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies m...
PAUL AUSTER

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or ju...
PAUL AUSTER

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have sea...
PAUL AUSTER

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into t...
PAUL AUSTER

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

I don't judge these things by numbers. How many people read 'Paradise Lost' when it was published? T...
PAUL AUSTER

The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, ...
PAUL AUSTER

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to...
PAUL AUSTER

In the mid-70s I wrote some plays, also, but it wasn't until the very late '70s when I ran into a re...
PAUL AUSTER

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating con...
PAUL AUSTER

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilo...
PAUL AUSTER

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizi...
PAUL AUSTER

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
PAUL AUSTER

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in ...
PAUL AUSTER

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poe...
PAUL AUSTER

Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made-...
PAUL AUSTER

And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu...
PAUL AUSTER

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
PAUL AUSTER

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of m...
PAUL AUSTER

I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause,...
PAUL AUSTER

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exi...
PAUL AUSTER

(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of...
PAUL AUSTER

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death i...
PAUL AUSTER

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment...
PAUL AUSTER

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold i...
PAUL AUSTER

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered....
PAUL AUSTER

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up...
PAUL AUSTER

I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to l...
PAUL AUSTER

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
PAUL AUSTER

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't...
PAUL AUSTER

The truth of the story lies in the details.
PAUL AUSTER

A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.
PAUL AUSTER

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It wa...
PAUL AUSTER

Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I...
PAUL AUSTER

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

The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public.
PAUL AUSTER

Dünya sarhoş ediyor insanı evlat. Dünyanın bilinmezliği sarhoş ediyor.
PAUL AUSTER

I was. Then I wasn't anymore. Then I was. Then I wasn't. Now who knows. If the years have taught me ...
PAUL AUSTER

Rather than fill me with ecstasy or gladness, this breakthrough overpowered me with dread. I didn't ...
PAUL AUSTER

I'm not going to apologize for things that need no apology.
PAUL AUSTER

That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I...
PAUL AUSTER

If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into...
PAUL AUSTER

If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at ...
PAUL AUSTER

That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I ...
PAUL AUSTER

siete de enero de 1986 me tragué otras cuantas pastillas mágicas del doctor Singh y cogí un avió...
PAUL AUSTER

Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that ...
PAUL AUSTER

It was filled with books. That was the first thing I noticed when I went in—how many books there w...
PAUL AUSTER

He learned how to look at himself from a distance, to see himself first of all as a man among other ...
PAUL AUSTER

It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the ...
PAUL AUSTER

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the ...
PAUL AUSTER

Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
Moments of crisis produc...
PAUL AUSTER

I wasn't able to think about them directly or summon them up in any conscious way, but as I put toge...
PAUL AUSTER

There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept ...
PAUL AUSTER

To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did
that second though...
PAUL AUSTER

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o...
PAUL AUSTER

What else we know?
Nothing. That´s why we´re sitting together in this car now. Because we´re...
PAUL AUSTER

The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind coul...
PAUL AUSTER

Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they...
PAUL AUSTER

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules...
PAUL AUSTER

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the ...
PAUL AUSTER

The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t re...
PAUL AUSTER

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

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimi...
PAUL AUSTER

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In...
PAUL AUSTER

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
PAUL AUSTER

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastat...
PAUL AUSTER

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a...
PAUL AUSTER

belligerent, bellowing partisans, the astute man with the curly blond hair and the jocular, no-disci...
PAUL AUSTER

The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I wa...
PAUL AUSTER

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains o...
PAUL AUSTER

...cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a mat...
PAUL AUSTER

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL

Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE

A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING

Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX

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