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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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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.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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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.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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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 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 see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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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.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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