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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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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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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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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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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 understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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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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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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