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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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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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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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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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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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