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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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The dead have a presence.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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