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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
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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 instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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