"One should never underestimate the power of books."

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Paul Auster

#Book Quotes #Underestimate Quotes #Should Quotes

“What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”
“I kept saying that I want to be a singer, singer, singer. Someone told me, "Noooo, you move as an actress!" I believe that happens to a lot of people. People have a multiplicity of gifts, but I think people in your life are telling you which one you should focus on. I just got done talking with my group of water walkers about this. If you focus on one of your gifts, that one gift will be the catalyst to open up opportunities for the other gift.”
“What are you doing, looking at me with one eye and chasing a fly with the other?”
“So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.”
“Always keep your eye on the President of the church, and if he ever tells you to do anything, even if it is wrong, and you do it, the lord will bless you for it, but you don't need to worry. The lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray.”
“If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.”
“If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.”
“God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.”

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