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Don Delillo Inspirational Quotes (194)

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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
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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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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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There is a world inside the world.
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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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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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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