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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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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 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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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
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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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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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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.
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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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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
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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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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
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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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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
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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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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
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Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
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Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
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