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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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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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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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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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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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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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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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