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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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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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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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