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Paul Auster

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Paul Auster Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Paul Auster

Birthname

AKA: Paul Queen, Paul Benjamin

Birthday: February 3, 1947

Educated At: Columbia University

Nationality: American, United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Linguist, University Teacher, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Philosophy Of History

Spouse: Lydia Davis, Siri Hustvedt

Total quotes: 4

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Tagged: Reading, Books, Escape, calming

“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, The Brooklyn Follies

Tagged: Luck, Reading, Books, Reality

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”

— Paul Auster, City of Glass

Tagged: first lines of books

“As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”

— Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

Tagged: Wanting what you can't have, Desire, Lust, Want, Longing, Wanting Someone You Can't Have

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