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People Quotes by Don DeLillo

42 People quotes by Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo points out how those with power hide their plans, while the powerless turn to open violence. He also notes that money now drives the clock, flipping the old link between time and capitalism. Finally, he links new technology to a fresh, primitive fear that can grip anyone.

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Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

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People will always make comparisons.

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Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

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“Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?”

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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction…

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“Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.”

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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

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People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to…

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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three…

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People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know…

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Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of…

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I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design…

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He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in…

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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in…

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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes…

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Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something…

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For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens…

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America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local…

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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.…

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We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going…

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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…

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It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of…

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I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If…

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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,…

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Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the…

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Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the…

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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in…

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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

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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 understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more…

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror…

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