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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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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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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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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.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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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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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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