Paul Benjamin Auster, Paul Auster
Born 3 February 1947
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey
American author, poet, translator & screenwriter
“Money, of course, is never just money. It’s always something else, and it’s always something more, and it always has the last word.”
~Paul Auster, American author
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (1997) New York, NY: Picador, pp. 6-7
Extended excerpt [Memoir]:
“For the life of me I could never understand how such a relatively unimportant issue could cause so much trouble between them. But money, of course, is never just money. It’s always something else, and it’s always something more, and it always has the last word.” (pp. 6-7)
Source: Library – Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (1997) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-312-42232-6
“What man is strong enough to reject the possibility of hope?”
~Paul Auster, American author
The Locked Room (1986) Los Angeles, CA: Sun & Moon Press, p. 20
Extended excerpt [Fiction]:
“I thought: is it possible that I’ve been too hard on myself? And once I began to think that, I was lost. But who wouldn’t jump at the chance to redeem himself – what man is strong enough to reject the possibility of hope? The thought flickered through me that I could one day be resurrected in my own eyes, and I felt a sudden burst of friendship for Fanshawe across the years, across all the silence of the years that had kept us apart.” (p. 20)
Source: Library – The Locked Room (1986) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-940-65076-2
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