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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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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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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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