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" America was and is the immigrant's dream. "
Don DeLillo
Immigrant
America
Dream
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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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" People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. "
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" It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. "
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" The language of my books has shaped me as a man. "
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" When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. "
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" I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. "
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" True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. "
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" Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. "
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" There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. "
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" Rushdie is a hostage. "
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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. "
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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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" Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. "
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" One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. "
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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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" There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. "
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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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" It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. "
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" In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. "
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" I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. "
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" Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. "
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