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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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