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 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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The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
