Don DeLillo Quotes - Page 10

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• 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.

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  Photography, Past, Technology

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

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• Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

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  Legs, Want, Heat

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.228, Vintage

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

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  Fun, Past, Looks

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

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• 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.

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  Want, Failing, Said

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

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• She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

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  Confused, Escalators

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• People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

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  Children, Night, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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  Thinking, Jazz, Influence

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

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  Lonely, Effort, Anxiety

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

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  Independent, Intelligent, Reality

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• In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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  Meaningful, Literature, May

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

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• There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

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  Faith, Wind, Want

  Don DeLillo (2007). “Underworld: A Novel”, p.757, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

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  Insecure, Technology, Thinking

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• Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

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  Belief, Computer, Willing

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

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  Next, Finished

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

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  Dying, Scandal

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

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  Leaving, Left, Ifs

  Don DeLillo (2001). “The Body Artist: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Hardship makes the world obscure.

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  Hardship, World, Obscure

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.305, Vintage

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• I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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  Art, Communication, Reality

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

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  Cells, History, Stronger

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.346, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Football, Running, Pain

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

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• There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

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  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 1991.

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• Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

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  Honesty, Thinking, Terrible

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.326, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a world inside the world.

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  World

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.48, Penguin

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• It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

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  People, Professionalism, Eating

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.194, Pan Macmillan

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• The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

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  War, Men, Glasses

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