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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.
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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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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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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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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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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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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