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Paul Auster
Top 10 Best Quotes
“the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn’t, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.”
“I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time--which is impossible.”
“An unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not yourself at the same time.”
“...and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each person lived in a slightly different world from everyone else.”
“...feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...”
“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.”
“In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.”
“The world wasn’t real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn’t have been happening. For a long time afterward, Ferguson lived under the spell of this illusion, sleepwalking through his days and struggling to fall asleep at night, sick of a world he had stopped believing in, doubting everything that presented itself to his eyes.”
“an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive.”
“Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.”
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Book Keywords:
parents, childhood, life, parents-and-children
