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Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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