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

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
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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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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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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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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There is a world inside the world.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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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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