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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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Pain is just another form of information.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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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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Facts are lonely things.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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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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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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