Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
“He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.” — Sue Woolfe Copy Share Image
“Once again, he wondered why all his talents involved violence and death. He” — Ethan Cross Copy Share Image
“But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -… — Kim White Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“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… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
