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Something Quotes by Don DeLillo
- I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
- 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…
- When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
- 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…
- He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
- War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
- why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
- World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
- 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…
- It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron…
- Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle