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Things Quotes by Don DeLillo
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know…
- 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…
- Facts are lonely things
- The more things I threw away, the more I found.
- He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that…
- I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these…
- 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…
- We need time to lose interest in things.
- It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel…
- 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…
- You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
- Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
More Things Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- If I were an actor I could be someone, someone who'd always know the right things to say. But as soon as… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle