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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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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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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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