The Music of Chance
Paul Auster
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.”
“Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.”
“It's just another word for the same thing. You want to believe in some hidden purpose. You're trying to persuade yourself there's a reason for what happens in the world. I don't care what you call it--God or luck or harmony-- it all comes down to the same bullshit. It's a way of avoiding the facts, of refusing to look at how things really work.”
“It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.”
“I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.”
“Welcome to the club." "Club? What club is that?" "The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero." "I thought that was your number?" "It is. But it's your number, too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”
“Nashe did not have any definite plan. At most, the idea was to let himself drift for a while, to travel around from place to place and see what happened. He figured he would grow tired of it after a couple of months, and at that point he would sit down and worry about what to do next. But two months passed, and he still was not ready to give up. Little by little, he had fallen in love with his new life of freedom and irresponsibility, and once that happened, there were no longer any reasons to stop.”
“It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made. He could go anywhere he wanted, he could do anything he felt like doing, and not a single person in the world would care.”
“For one whole year he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out.”
“Every morning he would go to sleep telling himself that he had had enough, that there would be no more of it, and every afternoon he would wake up with the same desire, the same irresistible urge to crawl back into the car. He wanted that solitude again, that nightlong rush through the emptiness, that rumbling of the road along his skin.”
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Book Keywords:
love, freedom, inspirational-attitude, irresponsibility, opening-sentence, addiction, solitude, driving
