Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web. β¨ Don DeLillo (2011). The Body Artist, p.3, Pan Macmillan
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- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. β¨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.143, Univ. Press β¦ βΆ
- Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. β¨ Don DeLillo (2001). The Body Artist: A Novel, p.99, Simon and β¦ βΆ
- Explain me to myself, youβll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, Iβll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
- 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. β¨ Don DeLillo: � β¦ βΆ
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