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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
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Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
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I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
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Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
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When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.
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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
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