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I see myself as anybody, as everybody I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Every man is the author of his own life.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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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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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
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We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
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Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
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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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