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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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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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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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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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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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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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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Facts are lonely things.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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