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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.
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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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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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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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It's like a mathematical law, Grace.
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