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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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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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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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