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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.
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Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
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Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.
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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
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You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.
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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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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
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Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
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