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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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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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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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