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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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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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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To become a crowd is to keep out death.
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All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.
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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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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
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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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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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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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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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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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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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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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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.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'