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Don DeLillo Quotes

Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn Picture Quote #1

It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t know Picture Quote #1

And what’s the point of waking up in the morning if you don’t try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people’s sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power Picture Quote #1

Just because it’s on the radio doesn’t mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses Picture Quote #1

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Music is dangerous in so many ways. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world Picture Quote #1

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything Picture Quote #1

I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them Picture Quote #1

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain Picture Quote #1

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link Picture Quote #1

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent Picture Quote #1

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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it Picture Quote #1

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act Picture Quote #1

People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking... a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions Picture Quote #1

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Years after I’d seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts Picture Quote #1

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world Picture Quote #1

It’s all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story Picture Quote #1

Isn’t death the boundary we need? Doesn’t it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit Picture Quote #1

People in free societies don’t have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It’s simply how we live Picture Quote #1

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me Picture Quote #1

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We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality Picture Quote #1

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you’ve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it’s ordinary murder Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain Picture Quote #1

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Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn (Don DeLillo Quotes) It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t know (Don DeLillo Quotes) And what’s the point of waking up in the morning if you don’t try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life? (Don DeLillo Quotes) 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 (Don DeLillo Quotes) I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people’s sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power (Don DeLillo Quotes) Just because it’s on the radio doesn’t mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses (Don DeLillo Quotes) Music is dangerous in so many ways. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world (Don DeLillo Quotes) There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything (Don DeLillo Quotes) I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them (Don DeLillo Quotes) It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain (Don DeLillo Quotes) Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link (Don DeLillo Quotes) Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent (Don DeLillo Quotes) People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it (Don DeLillo Quotes) If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act (Don DeLillo Quotes) People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony (Don DeLillo Quotes) 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 (Don DeLillo Quotes) 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 (Don DeLillo Quotes) Writing is a concentrated form of thinking... a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions (Don DeLillo Quotes) Years after I’d seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts (Don DeLillo Quotes) I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world (Don DeLillo Quotes) It’s all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story (Don DeLillo Quotes) Isn’t death the boundary we need? Doesn’t it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit (Don DeLillo Quotes) People in free societies don’t have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It’s simply how we live (Don DeLillo Quotes) Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me (Don DeLillo Quotes) We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality (Don DeLillo Quotes) The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you’ve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it’s ordinary murder (Don DeLillo Quotes) 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 Quotes) It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain (Don DeLillo Quotes)

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