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Paul Auster Quotes

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1947

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Words Me Think You Pen Body

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

Long Secrets Decide Stay Even Very

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Man You Him Humour Must According

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

Nature Me Growing Up Growing Duty

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

Sun Singing Rest Reality Village

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

Time Ride Find Way Write Kids

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Feel You Worst Resentment Keep

I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books.

Fashion Things Exist Different Idea

I like talking about my music.

Music Talking Like About

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Mother Freedom Friends Go Sometimes

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There will always be a need for poets.

Day Go Important Will Office Need

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.

Time Stress Bad Way Waste Time

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

Work Great Day Wife She Off

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