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Don DeLillo Quote: “There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren’t noticed in the way that a writer might notice.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I’m a novelist, period. An American novelist.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “In a country that’s in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “It is only me, the body in the shower, one person enclosed in plastic watching a drop of water skate down the wet curtain. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It is a moment never to be thought of except when it is in the process of unfolding.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “You don’t know the connection? You don’t know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. These things make the past seem permanent. A baseball signed by a famous player, long dead. A simple coffee mug. Things we trust. They tell an important story. A person’s life, all those who entered and left, there’s a depth, a richness.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “All this optimism, all this booming and soaring. Things happen like bang. This and that simultaneous. I put out my hand and what do I feel? I know there’s a thousand things you analyze every ten minutes. Patterns, ratios, indexes, whole maps of information. I love information. This is our sweetness and light. It’s a fuckall wonder. And we have meaning in the world. People eat and sleep in the shadow of what we do. But at the same time, what?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I’m at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The pattern match begins with a search for a substring of a given string that has a specified structure in the string manipulation language.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “His stillness was commanding. I felt myself getting whiter by the second. What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in? I was scared to the marrow. I was cold and hot, dry and wet, myself and someone else. The fist clenched in my chest. I went to the staircase and sat on the top step, looking into my hands. So much remained. Every word and thing a beadwork of bright creation.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Through history it’s the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Miracles share the landscape with death.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “It’s healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The whole country’s going to puke blood when they read it.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It’s a moment never to be thought of except when it’s in the process of unfolding. Maybe this is why it doesn’t seem peculiar. It is only me. I don’t think about it. I simply live within it and then leave it behind.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I’ve always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that’s where I belong, that’s where my work belongs.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “My attitudes aren’t directed toward characters at all. I don’t feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don’t love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don’t.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “It seems that danger assigns to public voices the responsibility of a rhythm, as if in metrical units there is a coherence we can use to balance whatever senseless and furious event is about to come rushing around our heads.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “To men at this remove, it is as though things exist in their particular physical form in order to reveal the hidden simplicity of some powerful mathematical truth.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The nice thing about life is that it’s filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “World is supposed to mean something that’s self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Her sweat is a rank reminder, the only one, that she exists, that she is separate from the things that surround her.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The falling away of things we carry around with us, twilight and chimney smoke.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “That’s what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “We’re a crowd, a swarm. We think in groups, travel in armies. Armies carry the gene for self-destruction. One bomb is never enough. The blur of technology, this is where the oracles plot their wars. Because now comes the introversion. Father Teilhard knew this, the omega point. A leap out of our biology. Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be human forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I’ll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “When I get real high I can feel the space between sounds.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “We still want what we want. We want a haircut.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “We drove in silence behind a motorboat being towed by a black pickup. I thought of his remarks about matter and being, those long nights on the deck, half smashed, he and I, transcendence, paroxysm, the end of human consciousness. It seemed so much dead echo now. Point omega. A million years away. The omega point has narrowed, here and now, to the point of a knife as it enters a body. All the man’s grand themes funneled down to local grief, one body, out there somewhere, or not.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “There’s a dolphin’s brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “To be a tourist is to escape accountability.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems sited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “She was shining a light on us, she was coming into being, endlessly being formed and reformed as the muscles in her face worked at smiling and speaking, as the electronic dots swarmed.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that’s the direction I take. I don’t know if I’m trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “A novel determines its own size and shape and I’ve never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter’s inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to country. He did not talk so much as narrate. He traced a wavy line, his, and there was usually someone willing to be the random body that he told his stories to.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “At first it was only a nuisance. Now it’s a nuisance that threatens to become a way of life.”
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