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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
Don DeLillo
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
Don DeLillo
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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.
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.
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.
Don DeLillo
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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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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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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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
Don DeLillo
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