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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
Don DeLillo
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
Don DeLillo
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
Don DeLillo
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Don DeLillo
Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
Don DeLillo
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Don DeLillo
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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
There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
Don DeLillo
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Don DeLillo
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
Don DeLillo
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
Don DeLillo
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
Don DeLillo
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
Don DeLillo
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Don DeLillo
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
