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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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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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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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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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