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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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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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