"As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy."

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Paul Auster

#Boys Quotes #Littles Quotes #Strange Quotes

“they say life goes on long after the thrill of living”
“Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this new, powerful, honest, non-pandering kind of female is becoming more powerful than whatever else has been rocking it for the past 10 years. I heard that Hugh Hefner's daughter is taking over. Which, if a woman is running Playboy, something is right.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.”
“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”
“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”

Source : "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.
“We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because â€˜these are the good old daysâ€™ now.”

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