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What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
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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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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 guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
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It's like a mathematical law, Grace.
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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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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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