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Out Quotes by Don DeLillo
- There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
- In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
- Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
- To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise…
- Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out…
- 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…
- the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
- 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…
- Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
- That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
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