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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

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 marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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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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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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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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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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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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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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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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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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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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