Don DeLillo Quotes About Violence
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People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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