Quotes by Paul Auster

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American writer and film

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 3 february 1947

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  • The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
    (2008)
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  • The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
    Collected Novels Volume Four (2016) 8
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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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  • There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
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  • To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
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  • We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
    Winter Journal (2012) 101
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  • We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
    (2013)
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  • We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
    Moon Palace (2010) 119
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  • What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
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