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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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The dead have a presence.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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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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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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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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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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