Don DeLillo Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I want to have a long career.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
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Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world's reply: 'Sorry, you can't; we've already used it all up.' To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.
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Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.
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The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
