"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

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Source : Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Paul Auster

#Beautiful Quotes #Reading Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The real deal is always going to win in the end.”
“Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!”
“We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.”
“Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.”
“The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.”
“There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.”
“The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.”
“I am the world's worst good bridge player.”

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