Paul Auster Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

  Paul Auster

  Life, Pain, Reality

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.103, Faber & Faber

• In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

  Paul Auster

  Life, Bulls, World

  Paul Auster (1990). “The New York Trilogy”, p.132, Penguin

• 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

  Life, Hands, Ideas

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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