"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."

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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

#Ready Quotes #Not Ready Quotes

“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”
“In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.”

Source : Carolyn Meyer (2009). “Patience, Princess Catherine: A Young Royals Book”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
“What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?”

Source : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“Destiny and fate are of oneâ€™s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.”
“The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.”
“I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.”
“I have a love-hate relationship with performing.”

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