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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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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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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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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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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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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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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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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'd like to lose interest in myself.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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