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Don Delillo Inspirational Quotes (194)

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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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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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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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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.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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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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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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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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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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I'd like to lose interest in myself.
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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.
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