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Don Delillo Inspirational Quotes (194)

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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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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.
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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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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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
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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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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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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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