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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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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
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There is a world inside the world.
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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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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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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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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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.
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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 think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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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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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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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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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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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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