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“Facts are lonely things”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Source: Libra

“Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“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.”

Source: Don DeLillo's White Noise

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

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

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

Don DeLillo book Americana

Source: Americana

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

Don DeLillo Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.”

Don DeLillo Running Dog

Source: Running Dog

“He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

“I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.”

“I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.”

Don DeLillo Valparaiso

Source: Valparaiso

“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

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

Don DeLillo Falling Man

Source: Falling Man

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

Don DeLillo book The Body Artist

Source: The Body Artist

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”

“Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?”

Don DeLillo Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.”

Source: Don DeLillo's White Noise

“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis