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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

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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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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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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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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