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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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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.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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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.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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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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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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