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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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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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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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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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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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'd like to lose interest in myself.
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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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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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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