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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
Don DeLillo
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Don DeLillo
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLillo
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
Don DeLillo
The dead have a presence.
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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.
Don DeLillo
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
Don DeLillo
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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.
Don DeLillo
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
Don DeLillo
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
Don DeLillo
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
Don DeLillo
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
Don DeLillo
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
Don DeLillo
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
Don DeLillo
