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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Facts are lonely things.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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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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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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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