Don DeLillo Quotes About Age
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.
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We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
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