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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
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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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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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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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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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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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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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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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 like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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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 cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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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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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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