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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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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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