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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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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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Pain is just another form of information.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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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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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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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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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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