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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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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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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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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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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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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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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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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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