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Quotes by

Don Delillo

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. – Don Delillo

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

Theres a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. – Don DeLillo

I slept for four years. I didnt study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. – Don DeLillo

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. – Don DeLillo

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. – Don DeLillo

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. – Don DeLillo

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. – Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. – Don DeLillo

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. – Don DeLillo

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. – Don DeLillo

The future belongs to crowds. – Don DeLillo

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. – Don DeLillo

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. – Don DeLillo

There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. – Don Delillo