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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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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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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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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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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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