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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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 felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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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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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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