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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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 would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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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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