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Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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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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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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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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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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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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People will always make comparisons.
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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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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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