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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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New York City
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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