Famous Paul Auster Quotes

  • If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster

    If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself.– Paul Auster

  • And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man. – Paul Auster

    And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.– Paul Auster

  • If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn’t turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. – Paul Auster

    If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn’t turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.– Paul Auster

  • I know you don’t love me but that doesn’t mean I’m the wrong girl for you. – Paul Auster

    I know you don’t love me but that doesn’t mean I’m the wrong girl for you.– Paul Auster

  • All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room. – Paul Auster

    All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.– Paul Auster

  • We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen. – Paul Auster

    We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.– Paul Auster

  • Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. – Paul Auster

    Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.– Paul Auster

  • Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. – Paul Auster

    Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.– Paul Auster

  • I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author. – Paul Auster

    I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.– Paul Auster

  • It was. It will never be again. Remember. – Paul Auster

    It was. It will never be again. Remember.– Paul Auster