Don DeLillo - Mao II (1991)

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

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He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

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

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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists... Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

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Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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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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