Don DeLillo Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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To become a crowd is to keep out death.
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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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?
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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.
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I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
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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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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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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.
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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.