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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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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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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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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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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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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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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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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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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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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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