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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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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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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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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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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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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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