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Them Quotes by Don DeLillo
- Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
- I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
- What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened…
- People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- 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,…
- 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,…
- Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
- I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of…
- 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.…
- In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is…
- 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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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle