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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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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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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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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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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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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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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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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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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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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We need time to lose interest in things.
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