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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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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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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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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 would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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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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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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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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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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