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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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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
Don DeLillo
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Don DeLillo
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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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.
Don DeLillo
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
Don DeLillo
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
Don DeLillo
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Don DeLillo
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
Don DeLillo
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
Don DeLillo
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
Don DeLillo
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
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
Don DeLillo
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Don DeLillo
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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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.
Don DeLillo