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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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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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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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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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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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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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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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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 consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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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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Something lurked inside the truth.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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