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Paul Auster

Timbuktu

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  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    There was much to be thankful for, and much life still to be lived.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    You didn’t turn your back on a person for letting you down just once—not after a lifetime of friendship, you didn’t, and especially not if there were extenuating circumstances.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise—and these were Willy’s exact words—why bother to go on living?
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    It was just that he pitied him for not knowing how to enjoy life.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    in the afterglow of this dream about impossible and beautiful things, he sensed that Willy was still with him, and even if he couldn’t be with him, it was as if he were watching him, and even if the eyes that looked down on him were actually inside him, it made no difference in the larger scheme of things, because those eyes were the exact difference between feeling alone in the world and not feeling alone.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    I’m scared, Willy. Scared to go east, scared to go west. The way things stand now, I think I’d rather starve out here in the wilderness than run into one of those bullets. They’ll kill you just for breathing, and when you’re up against that kind of hatred, what’s the use of trying?”
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    It was the first time since his master’s death that he had been able to think about such things without feeling crushed by sorrow, the first time he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    If he fell asleep, it seemed perfectly possible to him that he would never wake up again.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    That’s all I’ve ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab, humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn’t matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That’s the best a man can ever do.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted6 years ago
    I’m telling you, friend, things aren’t as simple as they look. The human spirit is a dull instrument, and often we’re no better at figuring out how to take care of ourselves than the lowest worm in the ground.
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