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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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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
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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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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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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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Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
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You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
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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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I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
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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 was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
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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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