Don DeLilloAmerican writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.46, Univ. Press of M… ▶371Philosophy
Don DeLilloEverything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). Cosmopolis, p.57, Pan Macmillan361Thought
Don DeLilloComing and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I h… ▶372Reading
Don DeLilloIt was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess… ▶351ReadingThought
Don DeLilloI've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don … ▶362Hope
Don DeLilloIt's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure t… ▶352HumanityReadingThought
Don DeLilloPrayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, p.73,… ▶363Truth
Don DeLilloA Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ✨ … ▶374DeathLifeSadness
Don DeLilloPeople who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations wi… ▶374HumanityPolitics
Don DeLilloToo much has been forgotten in the name of memory. ✨ Don DeLillo (1989). Americana, p.240, Penguin331Death
Don DeLilloThere's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.82… ▶353Thought
Don DeLilloThere's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005)… ▶331Humanity
Don DeLilloAsk yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field. 375Humanity
Don DeLillodays like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too._Eric Packer331Death
Don DeLilloDo people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) ✨ Don DeLillo (2004). Cosmopolis: A Novel, p.20, Simon and Schuster332HumanityReadingThought
Don DeLilloThere's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ✨ Don DeLillo (2012). The Names, p.303, Vinta… ▶343Time
Don DeLilloMen with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ✨ … ▶355Thought
Don DeLilloThe power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of … ▶355DeathPoliticsThought
Don DeLilloThese are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). Falling Man, p.87, Pan Macmillan333Reflection
Don DeLilloThe greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). White Noise, p.181, Pan Macmillan333Sadness
Don DeLilloPeople hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. ✨ Don DeLi… ▶366HumanityTime
Don DeLilloThere is a world inside the world. ✨ Don DeLillo (1991). Libra, p.48, Penguin333Life
Don DeLilloDying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday. ✨ Don DeLillo (2015). Underworld: Picador Classic, p.242, Pan Macmillan311Death
Don DeLilloI long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and re… ▶312LifeReadingTime
Don DeLilloSometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. 301LoveReadingTime
Don DeLilloThe future belongs to crowds. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi356HopeTime
Don DeLilloJust because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). White Noise, p.26, Pan Macmillan356Philosophy
Don DeLilloI saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. <… ▶302Politics
Don DeLilloEveryone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now. ✨ Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality - this is what I see and hear' by Robert McCr… ▶346Truth
Don DeLilloWhat good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything. ✨… ▶335Death
