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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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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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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
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Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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Born:
November 20, 1936
(age 87)
Bio:
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.
Known for:
White Noise (1985)
Underworld (1997)
Zero K (2016)
Mao II (1991)
Falling Man (2007)
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