American - Novelist | November 20, 1936 -
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
Don DeLillo
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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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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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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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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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