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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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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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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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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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've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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