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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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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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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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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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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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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