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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| caa5aa8 | Significa que no puedes vivir sin los demas -dije-. Cuando estan ahi en carne y hueso, el mundo real es suficiente. Cuando estas solo, tienes que inventarte personajes, los necesitas para que te hagan compania. | Paul Auster | ||
| 028f5d4 | For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler. | Paul Auster | ||
| e3ffd4f | The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most of all was its tyranny. Not only did it have the power to interrupt him against his will, but inevitably he would give in to its command. | tyranny | Paul Auster | |
| 470fb84 | Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made us, for once we are thrown into the world, we continue to exist forever, and our stories go on being told, even after we are dead. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0402c5e | A lot of film people are like that- especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not about art or ideas. It's about working at something and making it come out right. | film filmmaking | Paul Auster | |
| 30200f1 | I am a man, not an angel, and if the grief that overtook me occasionally blurred my vision and led to certain lapses of conduct, that in no way should cast doubt on the truth of my story. Before anyone tries to discredit me by pointing to those stains on my record, I come forward of my own free will and openly pronounce my guilt to the world. These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spok.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 2cf08ac | We are not where we are . . . but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out. | Paul Auster | ||
| ac5b5e1 | Ferguson was naked in that bed, too, and everything felt so good to him, so perfectly in accord with how he imagined it would feel, that for once in his life the real and the imagined were identical, absolutely and as never before once and the same thing, which had to make it the happiest moment of his life so far, he believed, since Ferguson was not someone who subscribed to the notion that desire fulfilled was desire disappointed, at leas.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 208e072 | As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out. | Paul Auster | ||
| e0a8582 | That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigorating to push his mind in unaccustomed directions for a change, to be forced to stay on his toes. | Paul Auster | ||
| 23ca326 | The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old. | Paul Auster | ||
| bb2fa2b | Cada hombre es distinto de todos los demas, y cuando ocurren cosas horribles, cada cual reacciona a su manera. | reacción | Paul Auster | |
| 9ae89c1 | Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts. | Paul Auster | ||
| 33f7512 | If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing to assuage this opinion. The Spaniards used it as a justification to exploit the natives mercilessly for their own mercantile ends. For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavio.. | carribean indians native-americans spanish-colonial-period | Paul Auster | |
| 181cda5 | Leer por puro placer, por la hermosa quietud que te envuelve cuando resuenan en la cabeza las palabras de un autor. | Paul Auster | ||
| 5c371d6 | There's an imp inside me, and if I don't let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I'm an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am. | Paul Auster | ||
| 56bb3d5 | Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day. | Paul Auster | ||
| c71ec30 | Sang trung, roi bong toi. Nang doi xuong tu moi nga troi, sau do la dem den, nhung vi sao im lang, gio xao dong la canh. Le thuong la vay. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0552f2f | No importa lo que digan los demas; lo unico importante es mantenerse en pie. | Paul Auster | ||
| efdf907 | Do vat, nhung vat vo tri, co the dien dat tinh cam cua con nguoi. | Paul Auster | ||
| ac74ec1 | wt`lmtu mndh dhlk lHyn 'lW 'ufriT fy 'khdh l'shy lty tuql ly `l~ mHml ljd. lys l'naWh yHq llns 'n ykdhbw `lyk, wlkn `ndm yt`laWq l'mr blmDy, tSbH lHqyq@ mubhm@ bsr`@. wtbrz l'sTyr fy GDwn s`t, wtsry lHkyt lmuDkhaWm@, wsr`n mtudfan lHqy'q tHt jblin mn lnZryt lGryb@. | Paul Auster | ||
| 040196c | I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open your eyes to see it. The broken people, the broken things, the broken thoughts. The whole city is a junk heap. | Paul Auster | ||
| b7f3b30 | Non ricorda piu l'ultima volta che e riuscita a dormire per sei ore piene, sei ore ininterrotte senza svegliarsi da un brutto sogno o scoprire che i suoi occhi si erano aperti all'alba, e sa che questi problemi di sonno sono un brutto segno, un avviso inequivocabile del fatto che l'aspettano guai, ma malgrado quello che continua a ripeterle sua madre, non vuole tornare ai farmaci. Prendere una di quelle pillole e come inghiottire una piccol.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9137a74 | 'Hynan '`tqd 'n lmwt hw lshy lwHyd ldhy nkn lh 'y@ msh`r , nh shkln lfny , lTryq@ lwHyd@ lty nstTy` bh 'n n`br `n 'nfsn | Paul Auster | ||
| 032e7ad | I doubted that I would be able to sleep. There were too many things to digest, too many images churning in my mind, but the moment my head touched the pillow, I began to lose consciousness. I felt as if I'd been clubbed, as if my skull had been crushed by a stone. Some stories are too terrible, perhaps, and the only way to let them into you is to escape, to turn your back on them and steal off into the darkness. | Paul Auster | ||
| 6e68541 | cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a matter of principle- and therefore what she sees when she looks at you is not you as yourself but you as yet one more querrilla fighter in the war against authority, an unruly insurrectionist who has no business barging into the sanctum of her library and asking for work. Such are the times you live in,the times you both live in. She instructs you .. | truth-telling | Paul Auster | |
| 4ccb400 | Your wife tolerates your weaknesses and does not rant or scold, and if she worries, it is only because she wants you to live forever. You count the reasons why you have held her close to you for so many years, and surely this is one of them, one of the bright stars in the vast constellation of enduring love. | Paul Auster | ||
| 7310b69 | The countless tight squeezes you have been in during the course of your life, the desperate moments when you have felt an urgent, overpowering need to empty your bladder and no toilet is at hand, the times when you have found yourself stuck in traffic, for example, or sitting on a subway stalled between stations, and the pure agony of forcing yourself to hold it in. This is the universal dilemma that no one ever talks about, but everyone ha.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 629bdd1 | The human body lives in the mind of one who possesses a human body, and to live inside the human body possessed of the mind that perceives another human body is to live in a world of others. | Paul Auster | ||
| fa5a561 | a story about two friends who stop being friends because of a dispute in which both of their arguments are wrong | Paul Auster | ||
| a1f66b7 | Quand on me demande pourquoi je fume, je reponds que c'est parce que j'aime tousser. | Paul Auster | ||
| eb0ac0c | It was the first time since his master's death that he had been able to think about such things without feeling crushed by sorrow, the first time he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9549ae9 | And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man. | regret stupidity | Paul Auster | |
| dac58ae | Early in the summer of 1980, shortly after his son turned three, A. and the boy spent a week together in the country, in a house owned by friends who were off on vacation. A. noticed that Superman was playing in a local theater and decided to take the boy, on the off-chance that he would be able to sit through it. For the first half of the film, the boy was calm, working his way through a bin of popcorn, whispering his questions as A. had i.. | Paul Auster | ||
| b64e517 | One must die lovable (if one can). You are moved by this sentence, especially by the words in parentheses, which demonstrate a rare sensitivity of spirit, you feel, a hard-won understanding of how difficult it is to be lovable, especially for someone who is old, who is sinking into decrepitude and must be cared for by others. If one can. There is probably no greater human achievement than to be lovable at the end, | Paul Auster | ||
| 3e80c48 | Insan bir kez kendine karsi olmaya basladi mi, baska herkesin de karsi oldugunu dusunur. | Paul Auster | ||
| c3bdb8a | A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. | Paul Auster | ||
| 3a8b6f1 | There is also the equal and opposite temptation to look at the world as though it were an extension of the imaginary. [...] Like everyone else, he craves a meaning. Like everyone else his life is so fragmented that each time he sees a connection between two fragments he is tempted to look for a meaning in that connection. The connection exists. But to give it a meaning, to look beyond the bare fact of its existence, would be to build an ima.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 09347d6 | Se pregunta si las palabras no seran un elemento esencial de la sexualidad, si hablar no es en definitiva una forma mas sutil de acariciar, y si las imagenes que bailan en nuestra cabeza no son igual de importantes que los cuerpos que abrazamos. | Paul Auster | ||
| 38b9852 | I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn | first-sentence | Paul Auster | |
| f37227e | the big thing no one was expecting to happen, that no one had ever imagined could happen, was happening in all the unexpected and unimaginable ways that big things tend to happen. | Paul Auster | ||
| f849a87 | He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could. | Paul Auster | ||
| bb0d5e7 | That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace--because they weren't tormented by the curse of ambition. | Paul Auster | ||
| b41e166 | Sami sebe sme vsetci cudzincami, a ak vobec mame ponatie o tom, kto sme, je to iba preto, ze zijeme v ociach druhych. | Paul Auster |