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I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
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The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was just someone who pretended to be alive, a dead mean who spent his days translating a dead man´s book.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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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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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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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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