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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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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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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
Don DeLillo
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
Don DeLillo
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
Don DeLillo
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Don DeLillo
Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
Don DeLillo
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Don DeLillo
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
Don DeLillo
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
Don DeLillo
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
Don DeLillo
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
Don DeLillo
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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