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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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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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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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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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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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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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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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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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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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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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