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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
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Fiction creating reality.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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