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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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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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Facts are lonely things.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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