Don DeLillo - Point Quotes

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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

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This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.

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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

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Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

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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.

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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

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