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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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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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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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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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The dead have a presence.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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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.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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