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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Freud
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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 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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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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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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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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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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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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