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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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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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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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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.
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