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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
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New York City
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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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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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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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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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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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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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There is a world inside the world.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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