Author

Don DeLillo

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“Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”— Don DeLillo
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“I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.”— Don DeLillo
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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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“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
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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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“The future belongs to crowds.”— Don DeLillo
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“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”— Don DeLillo
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“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.”— Don DeLillo
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“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.”— 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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“Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.”— 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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“The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.”— Don DeLillo
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“In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.”— Don DeLillo
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“I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.”— Don DeLillo