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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.

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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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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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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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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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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A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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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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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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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 am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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