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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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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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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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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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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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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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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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