Don DeLillo Short Quotes

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Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

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I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

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

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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

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When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

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Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

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

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All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.

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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

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I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

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We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

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In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

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You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

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It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

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

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That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

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In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

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

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Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.

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