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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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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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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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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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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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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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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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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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