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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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 was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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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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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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