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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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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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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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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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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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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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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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