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Don DeLillo

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

Beauty

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Don DeLillo is saying that James Joyce influenced his writing style, not through direct copying but by inspiring him to appreciate how language can be beautiful. He sees Joyce as an example of how to use words artistically in fiction.

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