Quote by Don Delillo
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general

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

Other quotes by Don Delillo

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

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communication
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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

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Society
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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

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Weather
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter

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Beauty

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

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Beauty

Beauty and femininity are ageless and cant be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers wont like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour its based on femininity. – Marilyn Monroe

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Beauty

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now thats a real treat. – Joanne Woodward

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Beauty

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Alcohol doesnt console, it doesnt fill up anyones psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesnt comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. – Marguerite Duras

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God
[P]ie… the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy… – “Editorial Comment: Hints in Gastronomy,” Current Literature: A Magazine of Cont

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Desserts

Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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Writing

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. – Jeff Taylor

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Safety