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Paul Auster Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“...you’re too good for this world, and because of that, the world will eventually crush you.”
— Paul Auster, Invisible: A Novel
Tagged: World, Too Good, Nice, Destroy, Crush, Society, Vulnerable, Pure
“What we want and what we get are rarely the same thing.”
— Paul Auster, Invisible: A Novel
Tagged: Want, want vs. get, Life, want what you can't have, Wanting, Acceptance
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Tagged: Luck, Reading, Books, Reality
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Tagged: Reading, Books, Escape, calming
“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, City of Glass
Tagged: first lines of books
“Just think it, and chances are it will happen.”
— Paul Auster, Man in the Dark: A Novel
Tagged: Psychological, Psychology, power of the mind, Mind Creation, Dreams, Wants, Goals, Life
“As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”
— Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
Tagged: Wanting what you can't have, Desire, Lust, Want, Longing, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
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