A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. Don DeLillo sadness lonely years I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. Don DeLillo artist taken thinking Facts are lonely things. Don DeLillo lonely facts He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. Don DeLillo paper writing world People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units. Don DeLillo dying culture people I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. Don DeLillo silver soul want California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. Don DeLillo doom california style When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. Don DeLillo house bird looks Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'. Don DeLillo knows feelings firsts People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live. Don DeLillo finals people thinking Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. Don DeLillo larger-than-life people Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. Don DeLillo neurons communication brain What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years. Don DeLillo distracted memories years There'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 connections technology people People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Don DeLillo power literature people Technology is lust removed from nature. Don DeLillo technology lust The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? Don DeLillo modern meaning-of-life doe In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled. Don DeLillo dream men country I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. Don DeLillo i-can It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams Don DeLillo dream reality
