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One Quotes by Don DeLillo
- It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with…
- 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…
- [I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending,…
- Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
- 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,…
- Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful…
- If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that…
- 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…
- You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
- 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.
- I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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