Don DeLillo Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

  Don DeLillo

  Football, Running, Pain

  Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

• People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

  Don DeLillo

  Power, People, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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

• 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

• I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

  Don DeLillo

  America, Promise, Violence

  Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (1998). “White Noise: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

• Technology and violence are interdependent.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Violence

  Interview with Cecilia Sjoholm, perival.com. 1994.

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