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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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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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Pain is just another form of information.
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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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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
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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.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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