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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
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Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!
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