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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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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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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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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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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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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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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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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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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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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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