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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
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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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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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