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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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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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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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