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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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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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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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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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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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