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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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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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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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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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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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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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