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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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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 two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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