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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
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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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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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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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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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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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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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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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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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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