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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.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
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I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.
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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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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
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In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.
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All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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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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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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