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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.

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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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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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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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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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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The dead have a presence.
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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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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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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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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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People will always make comparisons.
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A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
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