Don DeLillo Quotes
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.
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There are no amateurs in the world of children.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
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The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
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It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
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I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.
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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
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He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
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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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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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