"You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else."

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Source : Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.6, Faber & Faber

Paul Auster

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”
“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.”
“It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.”
“The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.”
“It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.”
“Let me hear your body talk.”

Source : Song: Physical, Album: (2): Duets

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