Don DeLillo Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

• It is all falling indelibly into the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Fall, Past

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

• 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 present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Powerful, War

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

• 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 the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

• Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

  Don DeLillo

  Fun, Past, Looks

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

• Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Language, Amenities

  Don DeLillo (2001). “The Body Artist: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Race, People

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

• Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Nostalgia, Rage

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

• Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

  Don DeLillo

  Powerful, Mean, Past

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

• To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

  Don DeLillo

  Football, Thinking, Past

  "Director’s Cut: Q&A With Don DeLillo". Interview with by Rafe Bartholomew, grantland.com. October 12, 2011.

• There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Talking, Fading

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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