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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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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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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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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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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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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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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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