813 Quotes by Don DeLillo


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    To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.

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    In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one’s knowledge is less secure than your own.

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    It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.

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    He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.

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    Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don’t need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.

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    He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history – the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

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    I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams. Our offering is language.

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