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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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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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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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