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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
Don DeLillo
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
Pain is just another form of information.
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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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