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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.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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.
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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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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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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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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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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There is a world inside the world.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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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