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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
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I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
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He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
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In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.
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Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.
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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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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
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It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
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In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.
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Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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