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Me Quotes by Don DeLillo
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
- It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
- Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
- The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
- Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
- I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
- When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision…
- 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…
- He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.…
- days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
- Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.
- I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
- Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
- Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because…
- I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
- For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
- It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale