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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.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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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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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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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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