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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Einstein
Finished
Next
Freud

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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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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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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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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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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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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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