Don DeLillo Quotes - Page 6

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• Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

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  Stories, Terror, No Point

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

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  Night, Thinking, People

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

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• There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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  Technology, People, Connections

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The future belongs to crowds.

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  Future, Literature, Crowds

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

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  Insanity, Secret, Share

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Day Room”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

  Don DeLillo

  Character, Thinking, Technology

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

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• It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

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  Homesick

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Football, Thinking, Past

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

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• In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Demand, Language

  "Living in dangerous times". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

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  Sometimes, Hard

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

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  Fall, Lines, Certain

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

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  Play, Tunes, Able

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

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  Rocks, Hysteria, Genius

  "Why we keep on rolling with Dylan". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 8, 2006.

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• One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

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  Memories, Cat, Remember

  "Living in dangerous times". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 12, 2012.

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• If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

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  Vanity, Gamble, Knows

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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• World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

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  Mean, Self, World

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

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  Running, Strong, Fall

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

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  Uncles, Dirty, Personality

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

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  Eye, Agreement, Cities

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

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  Noise, Way, Loud

  Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.160, Penguin

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• The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

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  Loss, Thinking, Novelists

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• People will always make comparisons.

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  People, Comparison

  "Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death". Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

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• There are no amateurs in the world of children.

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  Children, World

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

  Don DeLillo

  Days Like This, Looks, Packers

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• It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Found, Said

  "On Authors: Interviews with literary giants, 1995-2012 (Guardian Shorts Book 51)". Book by Robert McCrum, October 17, 2012.

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