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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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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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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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