Don DeLillo citations

“Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.”

“Chaque moment perdu est la vie.”

“Ses textes étaient des poèmes en prose, le genre de choses qu'écrivent les infirmières avant d'assister à leur première amputation.”

“Où habitez vous? - Dans le cœur des hommes, répondit Sullivan.”

“[…] et pourtant cela l'incitait à explorer tous les musées et toutes les galeries d'art de la ville, et à consacrer toutes ses vacances et presque tout son argent à aller farfouiller dans les abbayes et les châteaux d'Europe, toutes ces poubelles à touristes où patrouillent des gardiens qui ont l'air d'avoir violé leurs propres filles.”

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”

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

“War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.”

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”

“The prospect of a humane war may be hideous and all the other names you can think of, but it's still a prospect. And as an alternative to all the other things that could happen in the event of war, it's relatively acceptable.”

“I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.”

“If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.”

“The future belongs to crowds”

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”

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

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

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

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”

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

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

“Facts are lonely things”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”