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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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