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Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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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.
Don DeLillo
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Don DeLillo
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Don DeLillo
Isn't death the boundary we need?
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
People will always make comparisons.
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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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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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