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message 1: by Marie-claire (new)

Marie-claire | 2 comments goodreads has Paul Auster as the author of the quote: "Stories only happen to
those who know how to tell them." However, I believe it was Sartre that coined that phrase...in French, of course.


message 2: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
I'm not finding the quote in our database. Link, please?


message 3: by Marie-claire (new)

Marie-claire | 2 comments rivka wrote: "I'm not finding the quote in our database. Link, please?"

http://www.goodreads.com/search/searc...


message 4: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Here's a source for it being an Auster quote. Sartre may well have said something similar; that doesn't keep this from being a quote of Auster's.


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