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Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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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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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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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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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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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 that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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There is a world inside the world.
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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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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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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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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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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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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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