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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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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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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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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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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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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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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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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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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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