"Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever."

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Source : Paul Auster (2014). “Collected Novels Volume 1: New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace”, p.601, Faber & Faber

Paul Auster

#Reality Quotes #Forever Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”
“Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.”
“A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.”
“It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.”
“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”
“[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect”

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