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 guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasnt that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. Id already been translating French poetry, Id been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. – Paul Auster

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Poetry
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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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The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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If you dont know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you dont know the stories you may be lost in life. – Anon.

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

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