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Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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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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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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