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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
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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