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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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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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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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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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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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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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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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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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