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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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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 cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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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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