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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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