Don DeLillo citations

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“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”

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

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

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

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

“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)”

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

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

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

“Longing on a large scale makes history.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.”

“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.”

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

“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.”