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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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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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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. 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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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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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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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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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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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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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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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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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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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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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