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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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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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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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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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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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