Paul Auster Quotes about Memories

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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Paul Auster

Memories, Space, Happens

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

Paul Auster

Memories, Odds, Reason

Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.486, Faber & Faber

Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

Paul Auster

Memories, Character, Thinking

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The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

Paul Auster

Memories, Moving, Writing

Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.193, Faber & Faber

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

Paul Auster

Memories, Men, Mirrors

Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.148, Penguin

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

Paul Auster

Memories, Father, Moving

Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.102, Penguin