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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Don Delillo
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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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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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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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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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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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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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