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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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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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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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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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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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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 dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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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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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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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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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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