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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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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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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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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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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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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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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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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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There is a world inside the world.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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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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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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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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