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Don Delillo Inspirational Quotes (194)

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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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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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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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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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