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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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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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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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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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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. 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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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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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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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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