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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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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 am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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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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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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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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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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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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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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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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