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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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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.
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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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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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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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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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There is a world inside the world.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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