Don DeLillo quotes - page 2

Don DeLillo is an American novelist and playwright, renowned for his postmodern works exploring contemporary culture and politics. His influential novels, such as "White Noise" and "Underworld," have shaped modern American literature. He continues to be celebrated for his incisive commentary and original style. Here are 166 of his quotes:

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. (Don DeLillo)
Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. View quote
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions. View quote
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. View quote
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from. View quote
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I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. View quote
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We need time to lose interest in things. View quote
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It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. View quote
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. View quote
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. View quote
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The more things I threw away, the more I found. (Don DeLillo)
Longing on a large scale makes history. View quote
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These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. View quote
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. View quote
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Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. View quote
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. View quote
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory. View quote
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. View quote
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. View quote
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. View quote
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. (Don DeLillo)
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious? View quote
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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. View quote
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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? View quote
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. View quote
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Don DeLillo

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: November 20, 1936
Quotes count: 166
Wikipedia: Don DeLillo

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