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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
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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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 would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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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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