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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.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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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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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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