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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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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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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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The dead have a presence.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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Facts are lonely things.
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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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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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