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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.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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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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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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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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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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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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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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