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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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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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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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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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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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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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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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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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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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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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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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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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There is a world inside the world.
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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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