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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.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Facts are lonely things.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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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.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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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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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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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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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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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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