Don DeLillo quotes - page 6

I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white. (Don DeLillo)
Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch. View quote
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Who will die first? View quote
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. View quote
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. View quote
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. View quote
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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. View quote
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. View quote
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. View quote
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. View quote
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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)
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. View quote
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. View quote
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. View quote
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. View quote
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Something lurked inside the truth. View quote
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. View quote
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. View quote
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit. View quote
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past. View quote
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. (Don DeLillo)
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? View quote
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There are no amateurs in the world of children. View quote
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs. View quote
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The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. View quote
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