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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. 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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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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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 don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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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.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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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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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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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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