Quote by Don Delillo
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent o

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

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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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A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. – Jonathan Sacks

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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. – David Ogilvy

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We are what make up society. – Tom Shadyac

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The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. – Alan Redpath

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here! – Dante Alighieri

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randolph Bourne

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