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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
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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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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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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