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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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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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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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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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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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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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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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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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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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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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