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I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar,


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DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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