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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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More quotes by Don DeLillo
Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
Don DeLillo
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo
It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Don DeLillo
Technology and violence are interdependent.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
Don DeLillo
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
Don DeLillo
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
Don DeLillo
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
Don DeLillo
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
Don DeLillo
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Don DeLillo
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
