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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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