No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer. - Paul Auster
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
- Paul Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not. - Paul Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,… - Paul Auster
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,…
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. - Paul Auster
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. - Paul Auster
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. - Paul Auster
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus… - Paul Auster
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus…
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. - Paul Auster
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. - Paul Auster
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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