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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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People will always make comparisons.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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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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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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