Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.
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,…
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. - Paul Auster
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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