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Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Misinformation
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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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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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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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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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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