Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. Don DeLillo hardship tolerance people ... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount. Don DeLillo inherent honesty ifs I'd like to lose interest in myself. Don DeLillo loses interest self When he died he would not end. The world would end. Don DeLillo died ends world Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. Don DeLillo mirrors love sex You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. Don DeLillo know-thyself know-yourself needs Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. Don DeLillo dangerous way world The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. Don DeLillo alarms fire house World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. Don DeLillo self mean world why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? Don DeLillo noise days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer Don DeLillo days-like-this packers looks I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. Don DeLillo writing jobs fiction Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. Don DeLillo integrity men book America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. Don DeLillo character america people I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes. Don DeLillo cutting country fall If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. Don DeLillo games heart men America was and is the immigrant's dream. Don DeLillo literature dream america I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. Don DeLillo sound mean looks Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time. Don DeLillo clock digital space What terrorists gain, novelists lose. Don DeLillo terrorist gains novelists
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