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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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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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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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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.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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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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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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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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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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