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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Isn't death the boundary we need?
Don DeLillo
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Don DeLillo
Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
Don DeLillo
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
Don DeLillo
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
Don DeLillo
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo
It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Don DeLillo
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
Don DeLillo
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
Don DeLillo
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
Don DeLillo
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
Don DeLillo
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Don DeLillo
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.
Don DeLillo
