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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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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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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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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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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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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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You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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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.
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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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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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The dead have a presence.
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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