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Don DeLillo quotes about personality

American Novelist November 20, 1936

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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take. Don DeLillo
I believe, Jack, there are two kinds of people in the world. Killers and diers. Most of us are diers. We don't have the dispoisiton, the rage or whatever it takes to be a killer. We le death happen. We lie down and die. But think what it's like to be a killer. Think how exciting it is, in theory, to kill a person in direct confrontation. If he dies, you cannot. To kill him is to gain life-credit. The more people you kill, the more credit you store up. It explains any number of massacres,... Don DeLillo
A film can be undermined by the person you’re seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot. Don DeLillo
The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter’s hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design. I hadn’t expected to register such pleasure and sensation. The air was color-scrubbed, coppers and ochers burning off the metal skin of the aircraft to exchange with the framing desert. Don DeLillo
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable."
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. Don DeLillo
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "The writer is the person who stands outside society,..."
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets."
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo quote: "A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on..."
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million. Don DeLillo

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