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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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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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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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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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We need time to lose interest in things.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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