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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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I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
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I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'
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Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
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You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
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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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The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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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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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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I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!
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