Don DeLillo Quotes
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All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.
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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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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 language of my books has shaped me as a man.
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To become a crowd is to keep out death.
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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.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.
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Who will die first?
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.