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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
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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.
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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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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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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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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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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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There is a world inside the world.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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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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