December 2011
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“He never stopped loving her, he says, and now that she has left this world, he...”
– Paul Auster, Invisible
“Nothing happens. And still, it is not nothing.”
– Paul Auster, “White Spaces”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“this good woman who refuses to believe she’s good, for only the good doubt...”
– Paul Auster, Man in the dark
“Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.”
– William Faulkner
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Paul Auster Fun Fact:
In Paul Auster’s book, Invisible, the word “invisible” is mentioned seven times.
“Let’s face it, writing is hell.”
– William Styron, from the Paris Review
“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
– Christopher Wren
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“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence...”
– Paul Auster, Man in the Dark
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“I wanted her to live to a hundred, but as you know, what we want and what we get...”
– Paul Auster, Invisible
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
“From poetry to justice, then. Poetic justice, if you will. For the sad fact...”
– Invisible, Paul Auster
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley
Atticus Finch protecting Tom from the lynch mob
humingyay:
you sir…
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”
– Charles Bukowski
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to...”
– Adam Young
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“Master Blank was bold enough to lean forward and kiss her on the lips. For...”
– Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium
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“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they...”
– -Robert Frost
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