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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.
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He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
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As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
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We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.
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We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.
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The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
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In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.
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