Don DeLillo Quotes
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
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It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.
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Mortality defines the human condition.
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If you're taking a risk and you are not scared in some way, you're doing something wrong.
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
