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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
Freud
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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The dead have a presence.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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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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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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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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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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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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