Don DeLillo - Die Quotes

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Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Don DeLillo
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.

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Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you?

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Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Don DeLillo
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

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Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

Don DeLillo
You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

Don DeLillo