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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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