Don DeLillo quotes - page 4

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. (Don DeLillo)
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. View quote
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. View quote
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. View quote
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When he died he would not end. The world would end. View quote
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. View quote
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. View quote
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. (Don DeLillo)
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) View quote
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. View quote
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. View quote
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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. View quote
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When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. View quote
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. View quote
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. View quote
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The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress. View quote
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What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything. View quote
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) (Don DeLillo)
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. View quote
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man. View quote
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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. View quote
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. View quote
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