Quote by Paul Auster
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. – Paul Auster

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. – Paul Auster

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Poetry
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All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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Money
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling

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Storytelling

To be Human is to be a storyteller. – Barbara K. Walker

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Storytelling

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

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Storytelling

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Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

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Art

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. – Jack London

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Helping

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves virtue – something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. – James Bovard

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Politics

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Media