Don DeLillo Quotes
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.
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The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.
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The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
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I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
