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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.
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I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
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I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.
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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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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
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I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
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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 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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In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.
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I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.
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Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
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