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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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