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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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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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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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Something lurked inside the truth.
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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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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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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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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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