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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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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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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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt

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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. – Donna Tartt

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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. – Earl Nightingale

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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. – Carl Reiner

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Faith is a continuation of reason. – William Adams

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