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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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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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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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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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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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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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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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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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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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