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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.
Don DeLillo
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Don DeLillo -
Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
Don DeLillo -
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo -
All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo -
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo -
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo
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I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.
Don DeLillo -
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Don DeLillo -
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
Don DeLillo -
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Don DeLillo -
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo -
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
Don DeLillo
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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Who will die first?
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
Don DeLillo -
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo -
'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
Don DeLillo