Timbuktu Paul Auster Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God. — John Grisham

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. — Thomas Watson

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?'
'I don't need that stuff,' I told her.
'Henry, everybody needs love.'
'I don't need anything.'
'You poor boy. — Charles Bukowski

I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi. — Ray Romano

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden — William Carlos Williams

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet. — Virginia Woolf

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts - Leo Valdez — Rick Riordan

Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything. — Banana Yoshimoto

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure and positive. — Jeanette Coron

Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a load of books. — Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi

Great soul, great spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita