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it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Paul Auster
Life, Hands, Ideas
Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.5, Faber & Faber

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

Paul Auster
Life, Bulls, World
Paul Auster (1990). “The New York Trilogy”, p.132, Penguin

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster
Life, Pain, Reality
Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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