“السيئون يعرفون أنفسهم على أنهم طيبون،لكن الطيبين لا يعرفون شيئا. إنهم يقضون حياتهم و هم يغفرون للآخرين،لكنهم لا يستطيعون أن يغفروا لأنفسهم.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since. ”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“الكتب ترغمك على أن ترد مقابلاً ما لها،أن تدرب ذكاءك و مخيلتك،في حين تمكنك مشاهدة فيلم-بل التمتع به- في حالة من الغياب العقلي السلبي.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Just think it, and chances are it will happen.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“كأن صميم ذاتها قد انصدع فاغراً”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“but back then, at thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty, I walked around with a feeling that my life had never truly belonged to me, that I had never truly inhabited myself, that i had never been real. And because I wasn't real, I didn't understand the effect I had on others, the damage I could cause, the hurt I could inflict on the people who loved me.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Peace on earth, good will toward men. Piss on earth, good will toward none.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Sáng trưng, rồi bóng tối. Nắng dội xuống từ mọi ngả trời, sau đó là đêm đen, những vì sao im lặng, gió xao động lá cành. Lệ thường là vậy.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Đồ vật, những vật vô tri, có thể diễn đạt tình cảm của con người.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Desde então, sob o sol radioso, sob a tempestade, ao crepúsculo, sentimos amargamente a sua falta”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Et ce monde étrange continue de tourner.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
Paul Auster
Born place: in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
Born date February 3, 1947
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“It’s important not to be either too encouraged or too discouraged by what’s happening at any particular moment. No matter what you do, there will be times when things go well and times when things go badly. The only thing for sure, in either scenario, is that things will change. When something good happens, I try to enjoy it. When something bad happens, I try to understand why it happened. But in either case, the next day I’m on to something else.”
― Gillian Zoe Segal, quote from Getting There: A Book of Mentors
“The expectation that you bring with you in trading is often the greatest obstacle you will encounter.”
― quote from Paradigm Shift: How proper organization and preparation are the back-bones of any trading success (Trading Easyread Series Book 1)
“That guy—he’s a determined one, and he’s a fighter. He fought for you, didn’t he?”
― Ella Frank, quote from Trust
“The scared shitless feeling left the second we left the plane. Now, I just feel free. Adrenaline pumps and my heart hammers, but being one with the air makes me feel unrestrained in a way I never imagined possible.”
― Rachel Robinson, quote from Crazy Good
“At Snortin' Reformatory, a notorious Washington, D.C. jail located in the northern Virginia suburbs, The Afro-Anarchists were being thrown into a cell. It was a situation that the three of them, like many young black males in the D.C. area, had long ago come to expect as a rite of passage.
As the door slammed shut behind them, Bucktooth spoke. "Man, Phosphate, they didn't read us our rights or nothin'."
"Yeah, Phos,” Fontaine chimed in, "I didn't think they had to beat us, neither. And whoever heard of being charged with singing too loud and off-key in a public establishment? I don't believe there is no kind of law for that shit.”
― Donald Jeffries, quote from The Unreals
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