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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.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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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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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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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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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure 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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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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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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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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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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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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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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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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