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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
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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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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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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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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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'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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