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It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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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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I think all writers are a bit crazy Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.
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