"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

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"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

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"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying."

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"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."

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