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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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.
Don DeLillo
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
Don DeLillo
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
Don DeLillo
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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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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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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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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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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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo
To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
Don DeLillo
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
Don DeLillo
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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