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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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I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, That's interesting. But I don't know what to make of it.
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Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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