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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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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The dead have a presence.
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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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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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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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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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Something lurked inside the truth.
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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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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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