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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
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 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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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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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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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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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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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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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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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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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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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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