October 2011
28 posts
“I have never been perfect, but I am real.”
—I Thought My Father Was God, Edited by Paul Auster
“He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.”
—Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
“As the weird world rolls on…”
—Rose Hawthorne
“The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you’ll know what no one else knows, and that’s always useful.”
—Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember
“We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.”
—Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
“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.”
—Paul Auster, City of Glass
“Man has not one and the same life. He has many lives, placed end to end, and that is the cause of his misery.”
—Chateaubriand
“Afraid though he might be, would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?”
—Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium
