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

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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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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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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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