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Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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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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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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