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Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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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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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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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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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 used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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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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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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