Don DeLillo Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

  Don DeLillo

  Self, Want, Failing

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

• The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

  Don DeLillo

  Want, Failing, Said

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

• To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

  Don DeLillo

  Home, Errors, Stupidity

  1982 James Axton. The Names, ch.3.

• We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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