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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.
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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
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I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
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I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
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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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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
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Every man is the author of his own life.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
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Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
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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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The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
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