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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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