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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That’s why so many of them are in jail (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
I’ve got death inside me. It’s just a question of whether or not I can outlive it (Don DeLillo Quotes)
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself (Don DeLillo Quotes)
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn (Don DeLillo Quotes)
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world (Don DeLillo Quotes)
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us (Don DeLillo Quotes)
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen (Don DeLillo Quotes)
What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything (Don DeLillo Quotes)
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain (Don DeLillo Quotes)
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world (Don DeLillo Quotes)
If you know you’re worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
When I work, I’m just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that’s not familiar. But I’m not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear (Don DeLillo Quotes)
It was important for him to believe that he’d spent his life among people who kept missing the point (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
He thinks he’s happy but it’s just a nerve cell in his brain that’s getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation (Don DeLillo Quotes)
The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
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 (Don DeLillo Quotes)
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities (Don DeLillo Quotes)
People will not die. Isn’t this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They’re dying in their present form. They’re just about dead as distinct units (Don DeLillo Quotes)