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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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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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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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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.
Don DeLillo
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
Don DeLillo
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
Don DeLillo
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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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
Don DeLillo
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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