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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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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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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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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 less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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Pain is just another form of information.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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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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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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