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“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“The more things I threw away, the more I found.”

Don DeLillo

Source: Don DeLillo's White Noise

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“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. - Murray (WN 285)”

Don DeLillo

Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism

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

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

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

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Longing on a large scale makes history.”

Don DeLillo Underworld

Source: Underworld

“sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Source: Libra

“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Variant: What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Source: Libra

“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.”

Don DeLillo Mao II

Part 1, Ch. 3
Source: Mao II (1991)
Context: 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.