Don DeLillo Quotes

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Don DeLillo

Profession : Novelist

Birth : November 20, 1936

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Don DeLillo

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

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

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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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Rushdie is a hostage.

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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.

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The future belongs to crowds.

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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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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Hardship makes the world obscure.

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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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America was and is the immigrant's dream.

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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

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