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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

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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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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. ↗

— 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 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

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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'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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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. ↗

— 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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