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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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The dead have a presence.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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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 was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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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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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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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