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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9bbd49f | In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b0bf141 | If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 479a788 | I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a3afa56 | The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f6850df | The novel used to feed our search for meaning. Quoting Bill. It was the great secular transcendence. The Latin mass of language, character, occasional new truth. But our desperation has led us toward something larger and darker. So we turn to the news, which provides an unremitting mood of catastrophe. This is where we find emotional experience not available elsewhere. We don't need the novel. Quoting Bill. We don't even need catastrophes, .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5f106c0 | War is the ultimate realization of modern technology. For centuries men have tested themselves in war. War was the final test, the great experience, the privilege, the honor, the selfsacrifice or what have you, the absolutely ultimate determination of what kind of man you were. War was the great challenge and the great evaluator. It told you how much you were worth. But it's different today. Few men want to go off and fight. We prove oursel.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 780c325 | She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4c3afd7 | Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life? | Don DeLillo | ||
| a2ad967 | Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4aa6a37 | Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 94f8098 | This is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world,how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 93e5693 | My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.' 'Sounds like a boring life.' 'I hope it lasts forever. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d86338c | But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves. | Don DeLillo | ||
| eab0791 | Tyle w nich bylo chrzescijanstwa. I tak niewiele z Chrystusa. | kościół pis pissed władza | Don DeLillo | |
| 928d012 | I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1e54b56 | Miracles share the landscape with death. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ba86999 | We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they've been up there, the same two birds since bible times. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9523bdc | It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 77b70a8 | it referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 346ed12 | How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process. | children games | Don DeLillo | |
| 6560428 | The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 48f5b66 | A naked woman was amazing. He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off clothes or a beach blanket across the lap or sex in a dark car. This was her whole body naked in light, standing and lying and front and back and open and showing and then different when she walked, surer than he was, unclunky and smooth-moving, with parts that didn't bounce. She knew how to be naked. She looked like she'd been raised naked in this room,.. | woman womanhood | Don DeLillo | |
| cab1293 | Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile up around you, the greater your equity, the stronger your power, the longer you live. This is the point of living in a high rise. To see the bodies pile up at sunset, the nostalgic hour, the hour of summing up, stirring the cocktails, feeling the great tower sway in the hot winds. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e9fdd8d | No, no, no, no. Who are you? What is this? Don't leave. They're leaving. They've left. | Don DeLillo | ||
| bfb4277 | But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I'd never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, | Don DeLillo | ||
| b813106 | BUDGE (muffled) No,no,nono. NURSE BAKER I understand what you're trying to say. BUDGE A hideous scream. NURSE BAKER Exactly. BUDGE A cry of desperation. NURSE BAKER Perfect. BUDGE A strangled sob. A plea torn from my throat. What sound can I make to convince you I'm not the one you want? A disconsolate sigh? Maybe that's what you want to hear. The smallest human moan imaginable. A whisper in a corner of an unlit room, with curtains blowing .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8aca584 | Nei miei sogni scorrevano fiumi e peccati, occhi sbarrati di volti sommersi. Mi risvegliai nel silenzio e nel gelo, sotto l'occhio accusatore dei riflettori ad arco. La citta traboccava di persone in cerca dell'uomo o della donna in grado di salvarle. Puzzavo di sudore freddo, alcol e paura. Il loft mi sembrava sconfinato, un'immagine ripescata dal fondo sabbioso di un sogno. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c7cf634 | I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief." | grief humanity | Don DeLillo | |
| 75749dc | All sex is a form of longing even as it happens. Because it happens against the crush of time. Because the surface of the act is public, a cross-grain of fear and ruin. She wanted her body to remain a secret of the past, untouched by complexity and regret. She was superstitious about talking to doctors in detail. She thought they would take her body over, name all the damaged parts, speak all the awful words. She lay for a long time with he.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d15f96e | this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it." _Eric Packer" | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| db0b489 | it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically. | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| ec9af62 | Poco tempo fa sono andato a pranzo con un amico. Si e messo a piangere. Voleva costruirsi una barca e salpare per la Tasmania. Io gli ho riso in faccia. Una settimana dopo gli e venuta un'emorragia cerebrale. Non siamo capaci di imparare niente dagli stereotipi che ci circondano, neppure che siamo tutti uguali. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ceda31e | Objects are what we aren't, what we can't extend ourselves to be. Do people make things to define the boundaries of the self? Objects are the limits we desperately need. They show us where we end. They dispel our sadness, temporarily. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 64d9653 | This is the point of Babette. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3da12bd | It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1518c52 | lonely-chrome America. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f65bae1 | Opportunity, adventure, sunsets, dusty death. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8a7462a | The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e4541a1 | Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death. - (362) | Don DeLillo | ||
| fc841dd | You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6fa7251 | It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology. * | Don DeLillo | ||
| 68c980f | I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2213abd | I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9af8cf7 | How do we stand with others when the things that separate us are imposed at birth, when the separation haunts us and follows us day and night? | Don DeLillo |