Don DeLillo Quotes
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I'm very religious.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
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Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.
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God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
