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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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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.
Don DeLillo
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLillo
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
Don DeLillo
Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
Don DeLillo
Pain is just another form of information.
Don DeLillo
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Don DeLillo
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
Don DeLillo
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
Don DeLillo
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Don DeLillo
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
Don DeLillo
I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
Don DeLillo
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Don DeLillo
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
Don DeLillo