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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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.
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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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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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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 don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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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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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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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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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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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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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