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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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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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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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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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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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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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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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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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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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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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