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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
~ Don DeLillo
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
~ Don DeLillo
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
~ Don DeLillo
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
~ Don DeLillo
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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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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
~ Don DeLillo
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
~ Don DeLillo
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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People will always make comparisons.
~ Don DeLillo
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Rushdie is a hostage.
~ Don DeLillo
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
~ Don DeLillo
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The future belongs to crowds.
~ Don DeLillo
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
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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?
~ Don DeLillo
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
~ Don DeLillo
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
~ Don DeLillo
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
~ Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
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BirthDate
20 November, 1936
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United States
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