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The more things I threw away, the more I found.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Pain is just another form of information.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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