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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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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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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 I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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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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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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