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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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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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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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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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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
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