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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
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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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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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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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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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.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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