Don DeLillo Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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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 wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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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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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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When I talk about trade and industry, it is not because I think trade and industry are more important than social reform. It is purely because I know that you must make wealth in the country before you can distribute it.
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I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.
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Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
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I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here Alexandria, up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
