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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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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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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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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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People will always make comparisons.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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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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