Quote by Don Delillo
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but i

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

Other 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

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Assassination
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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

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

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movies
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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. – Christopher Lasch

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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. – Ibrahim Babangida

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Society

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Society

A persons worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. – Allen Klein

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When youre dying of thirst its too late to think about digging a well. – Japanese Proverb

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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. – will.i.am

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