813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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    We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

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    The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

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    There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

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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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    The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

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    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.

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    It’s healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

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