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Пол Бенджамин Остер — американский писатель и переводчик, сценарист, работающий в рамках постмодернизма, абсурдизма и экзистенциализма. Наиболее известен своей криминальной прозой, в которой развивает проблематику преступления, поиск себя и своего предназначения. Его «Нью-йоркская трилогия» получила приз Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère, в 1986 была номинирована на Edgar Award Best Mystery Novel.

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“Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.”

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Paul Auster книга The Book of Illusions

The Book of Illusions (2002)

“That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth. (Alma to David on Hector)”

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Paul Auster книга The Book of Illusions

The Book of Illusions (2002)

“[G]overnments always need enemies, even when they're not at war. If you don't have a real enemy, you make one up and spread the word. It scares the population, and when the people are scared, they tend not to step out of line.”

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Paul Auster книга Oracle Night

Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 168.
Oracle Night (2003)

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

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Paul Auster The New York Trilogy

"The Locked Room", p. 294
The New York Trilogy (1987)

“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 63.
Man In The Dark (2008)

“Every time my nose gushed blood, I felt like a little boy who'd wet his pants. I jumped out of the chair, pressed a handkerchief against my face, and hustled toward the nearest bathroom […] How red the blood looked against the whiteness of the porcelain sink, I thought. How vividly imagined that color was, how aesthetically shocking. The other fluids that came out of us were dull in comparison, the palest of squirts. Whitish spittle, milky semen, yellow pee, green-brown mucus. We excreted autumn and winter colors, but running invisibly through our veins, the very stuff that kept us alive, was the crimson of a mad artist—a red as brilliant as fresh paint.”

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Paul Auster книга Oracle Night

Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, pp. 41-42.
Oracle Night (2003)

“April 1945. My unit was in Germany, and we were the ones who liberated Dachau. Thirty thousands breathing skeletons. You've seen the pictures, but the pictures don't tell you what it was like. You have to go there and smell it for yourself; you have to be there and touch it with your own hands. Human beings did it to human beings, and they did it with a clear conscience. That was the end of mankind […] I'm sure you've read the stories about how some of them couldn't stop eating. The starved ones. They'd thought about food for so long, they couldn't help it. They ate until their stomachs burst, and they died. Hundreds of them.”

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Paul Auster книга Oracle Night

Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 92.
Oracle Night (2003)

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make a sound or not? Hector had read alot of books by then, he knew all the tricks and arguments of the philosophers. If someone makes a movie and no one sees it, does the movie exist or not?”

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Paul Auster книга The Book of Illusions

The Book of Illusions (2002)

“I didn't say I was afraid of dying, I answered, I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference.”

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Paul Auster книга The Book of Illusions

David to Dr. Singh
The Book of Illusions (2002)