"Language is not truth. It is the way we exist in the
world. Playing with words is merely to examine the way the mind functions, to
mirror a particle of the world as the mind perceives it."— American
novelist Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (1982)
(David
Shankbone photograph of Paul Auster at a breakfast honoring Israeli writer Amos
Oz on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, September 24, 2008)
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