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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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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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I thought, Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood. Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
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You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
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It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
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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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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
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I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.
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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.
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
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