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- Paul Auster: American writer and film
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
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As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out.
Oracle Night (2009) 72 -
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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Every man is the author of his own life.
Moon Palace (2010) 15 -
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
Moon Palace (2010) 601 -
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
Moon Palace (2010) 111 -
If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
Moon Palace (2010) 601 -
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.
Oracle Night (2009) 35 -
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
Moon Palace (2010) 87 -
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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One should never underestimate the power of books.
The Brooklyn Follies (2008) 139 -
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
(2005)
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