The Music of Chance Quotes

“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind
won't let you.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“It's just another word for the same thing. You want to believe in some hidden purpose. You're trying to persuade yourself there's a reason for what happens in the world. I don't care what you call it--God or luck or harmony-- it all comes down to the same bullshit. It's a way of avoiding the facts, of refusing to look at how things really work.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Welcome to the club."
"Club? What club is that?"
"The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero."
"I thought that was your number?"
"It is. But it's your number, too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made. He could go anywhere he wanted, he could do anything he felt like doing, and not a single person in the world would care.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Nashe did not have any definite plan. At most, the idea was to let himself drift for a while, to travel around from place to place and see what happened. He figured he would grow tired of it after a couple of months, and at that point he would sit down and worry about what to do next. But two months passed, and he still was not ready to give up. Little by little, he had fallen in love with his new life of freedom and irresponsibility, and once that happened, there were no longer any reasons to stop.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Every morning he would go to sleep telling himself that he had had enough, that there would be no more of it, and every afternoon he would wake up with the same desire, the same irresistible urge to crawl back into the car. He wanted that solitude again, that nightlong rush through the emptiness, that rumbling of the road along his skin.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“For one whole year he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“بعضی ها یکشنبه ها می رن کلیسا، اما برای ما پوکر جمعه شب ها مهم بود. نمی دونین اون وقتا چه قدر آخر هفته هامونو دوست داشتیم! بذارین بهتون بگم برای از بین بردن دغدغه های کار هیچ دوایی بهتر از یک دست قمار دوستانه نیس.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“کافیست زندگی دیگری برای خود تجسم کنید تا قلب تان هم چنان بتپد”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Due artisti nella stessa casa potrebbero essere troppi. Qualcuno deve occuparsi dell’aspetto pratico delle cose, eh, Willie? Ci vuole gente di tutti i tipi per fare il mondo.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“Bir değişiklikler girdabındaki tek sabit nokta oydu; dünya kendi içinden hızla geçip kaybolurken kıpırtısız duran tek cisim oydu.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance