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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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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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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.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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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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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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The dead have a presence.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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