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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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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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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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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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