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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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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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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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