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Paul Auster

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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.


— Paul Auster


#business

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom


— Paul Auster


#contemporary

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.


— Paul Auster


#love

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.


— Paul Auster


#life

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.


— Paul Auster


#children #love #moon #palace #love

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.


— Paul Auster


#death

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.


— Paul Auster


#courage

It was. It will never be again. Remember.


— Paul Auster


#paul-auster #quotes #literature-quotes

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.


— Paul Auster


#reading #words #writing #life

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.


— Paul Auster


#food #inspirational #money #moon-palace #peom






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M. The common factor of both ideas is the question of the meaning of symbols for human beings. Paul Auster is heard reading from his books Hand to Mouth and The Red Notebook either as straight recitation integrated with other sounds as if in a radio play or passed through an electronically realized string resonator so that the low tones interact with those of a string ensemble.

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3 1947) is an American author whose writing blends absurdism existentialism crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987) Moon Palace (1989) The Music of Chance (1990) The Book of Illusions (2002) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).

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