Don DeLillo quotes - page 3

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

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

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He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

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Evil is movement towards void.

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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

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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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It is all falling indelibly into the past.

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For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

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Facts are lonely things.

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Talent is more erotic when it's wasted. (Don DeLillo)

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

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I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.

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I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

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To become a crowd is to keep out death.

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I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

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Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing.

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I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

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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. (Don DeLillo)

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

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

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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.

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Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

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Don DeLillo

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: November 20, 1936
Quotes count: 166
Wikipedia: Don DeLillo

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