December 2011
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Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift...
– Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
November 2011
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So I let him bury me alive—an experience I would not recommend to anyone....
– Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
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He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible...
– Paul Auster, Timbuktu
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word...
– Paul Auster, The invention of Solitude
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Don’t be afraid…no one is allowed to die more than once.
– M.S. Fogg, Moon Palace by Paul Auster
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Little by little the world had become enough for him.
– Paul Auster, Moon Palace
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What is going to keep writing alive in this country are the independent...
– Paul Auster
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What, then, is the experience of language? It gives us the world and takes it...
– Paul Auster, Notes From A Composition Book (1967)
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Living is not a pastime for the faint of heart,” he says. “And the commonality...
– Peter David, Fable: The Balverine Order
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That’s the best a...
– Paul Auster, Timbuktu
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
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Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but...
– Paul Auster, Man in the Dark
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The Great Gatsby Game
Start: space bar
Jump: space bar
Shoot: Z
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
– Truman Capote
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In searching out the truth be ready for the unexpected, for it is difficult to...
– Heraclitus
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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