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Don DeLillo quotes about death

American Novelist November 20, 1936

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Don DeLillo quote: "We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by..."
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "People say great art is immortal. I say there's something..."
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. Don DeLillo
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new..."
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. Don DeLillo
His stillness was commanding. I felt myself getting whiter by the second. What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in? I was scared to the marrow. I was cold and hot, dry and wet, myself and someone else. The fist clenched in my chest. I went to the staircase and sat on the top step, looking into my hands. So much remained. Every word and thing a beadwork of bright creation. Don DeLillo
Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death. - (362) Don DeLillo
Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. Don DeLillo
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
Don DeLillo quote: "If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can..."
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or..."
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey,..."
It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "We're a silver gleaming death machine!"
We're a silver gleaming death machine! Don DeLillo

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