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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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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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There is a world inside the world.
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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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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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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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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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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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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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Facts are lonely things.
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