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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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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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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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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 instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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