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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
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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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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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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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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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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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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