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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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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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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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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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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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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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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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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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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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