Paul Auster Quotes

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

Jim Otto

FitnessYouMentalGiveMustAlso

Think about the style of the occasion before you plan your outfit.

Jenny Packham

StyleThinkPlanYouOutfitYour

I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out.

Matthew Desmond

FamilyDoorEndWeekYouNice

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

Steven Pinker

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I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

Ronald D. Moore

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There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.

Mitch Kapor

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We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

Jayne Mansfield

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I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'

Don Rickles

ManDinnerThoughtDoneNeverHere

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

ManHusbandFindExistIdealEasier

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Sylvia Earle

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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Hofstadter

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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel

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