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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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