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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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Facts are lonely things.
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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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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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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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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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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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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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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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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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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Don DeLillo
Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
Don DeLillo
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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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