Don DeLillo Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.
It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.
Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen.
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot ...
I'm at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space.
Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?
Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.
It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.
When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history.
Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world
Silence, exile, cunning and so on ... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.