Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
Don DeLillo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Gave
Word
Speak
Away
Every
Time
Trap
Traps
Opened
More quotes by Don DeLillo
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
Don DeLillo
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
Don DeLillo
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo
I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
Don DeLillo
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
Don DeLillo
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
Don DeLillo
Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
Don DeLillo
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLillo
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
Don DeLillo
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
Don DeLillo
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Don DeLillo
To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
Don DeLillo
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
Don DeLillo
Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
Don DeLillo
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
Don DeLillo
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
Don DeLillo
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
Don DeLillo
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
Don DeLillo