813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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    There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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    Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

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    Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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    A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot...

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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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