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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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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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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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