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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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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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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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