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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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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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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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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.
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