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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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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There is a world inside the world.
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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 came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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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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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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