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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.

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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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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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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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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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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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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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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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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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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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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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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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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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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