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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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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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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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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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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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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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