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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: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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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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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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There is a world inside the world.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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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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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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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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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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