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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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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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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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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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