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Don DeLillo quotes about life

American Novelist November 20, 1936

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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. Don DeLillo
There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print or on film. Two lovers quarrel in the back of a taxi and a question becomes implicit in the event. Who will write the book and who will play the lovers in the movie? Everything seeks its own heightened version. Don DeLillo
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child'smystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life. Don DeLillo
this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it." _Eric Packer Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life..."
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point. Don DeLillo
The alphabet is male and female. If you will know the correct order of letters, you make a world, you make creation. This is why they will hide the order. If you will know the combinations, you make all life and death. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death."
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. Don DeLillo
She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along. Don DeLillo
Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet, she said, for sheer unimaginableness. Don DeLillo
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky..."
She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life. Don DeLillo
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
Don DeLillo quote: "Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of..."
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. Don DeLillo
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not..."
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. Don DeLillo

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