February 2012
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“Smile when the situation doesn’t call for it. Smile when you’re feeling angry,...”
– Paul Auster, “Personal Instructions for Sophie Calle on How to Improve Life in New York City (Because she asked…),” collected in Gotham Handbook.
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“What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with...”
– Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
“For knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal...”
– Paul Auster, Ghosts
“Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone’s life all together, and...”
– Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you...”
– J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
