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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo
If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.
Don DeLillo
Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.
Don DeLillo
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
Don DeLillo
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Don DeLillo
Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.
Don DeLillo
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo
We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.
Don DeLillo
He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.
Don DeLillo
All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.
Don DeLillo
How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.
Don DeLillo
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
Don DeLillo
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
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLillo
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Don DeLillo
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
Don DeLillo
The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.
Don DeLillo