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When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.
- Paul Auster
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We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
- Paul Auster
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
- Paul Auster
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#I Believe That
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
- Paul Auster
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#Money
#Poetry
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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
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#Back
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I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
- Paul Auster
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Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
- Paul Auster
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#Reality
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
- Paul Auster
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
- Paul Auster
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
- Paul Auster
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The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
- Paul Auster
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#Secrets
#Unpredictable
#Wait
#Who
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
- Paul Auster
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#Thinking
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
- Paul Auster
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#Continually
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Paul Auster
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#End
#Night
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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
- Paul Auster
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There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
- Paul Auster
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#Round
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
- Paul Auster
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#Everything
#Ready
#You
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
- Paul Auster
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#Ground
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
- Paul Auster
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#Everything
#Forever
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
- Paul Auster
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#Feel
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