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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

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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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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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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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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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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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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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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