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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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Facts are lonely things.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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