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Own 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…
- And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world…
- Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a…
- There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic…
- Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
- When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,…
- 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…
- You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
- Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the…
- People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov