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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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