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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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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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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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We need time to lose interest in things.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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