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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
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