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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

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

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wedding
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Don Delillo
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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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Don Delillo
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Other Quotes from
Society
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Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank

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Society

Im really not interested in other peoples opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts. – H. G. Bissinger

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Society

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

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Society

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. – John Haynes Holmes

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Society

Random Quotes

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. – Karl Marx

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great

Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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Envy / Jealousy

Wed be working in our motel room through the night, and Id come up with an idea at two in the morning, and hed start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever. – Arthur Hiller

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Morning

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you dont. – Peter Drucker

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Time