Don DeLillo - Days Quotes

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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.

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Days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

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I 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 real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.

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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

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These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

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What 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.

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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

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A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

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