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From Quotes by Don DeLillo
- Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain…
- 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…
- 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,…
- As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do…
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
- Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and…
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology…
- History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected…
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,…
- What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every…
- How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,…
- It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities…
- Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.
- Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until…
- I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on…
- In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is…
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