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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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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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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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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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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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