Best quotes by Paul Auster on Life

Checkout quotes by Paul Auster on Life

• ‟ Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

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• ‟ People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

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• ‟ Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

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• ‟ Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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• ‟ We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

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• ‟ Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

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• ‟ I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

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• ‟ All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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