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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 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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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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