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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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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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 think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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The dead have a presence.
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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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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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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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Isn't death the boundary we need?
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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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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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