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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d944b54 | Voglio dirti una cosa che non dovresti dimenticarti mai. Se qualcuno ti da fastidio una volta e poi un'altra e un'altra e un'altra ancora, qualcuno con delle ambizioni, qualcuno avido di territorio, la prima regola da osservare e mirare in alto. In altre parole, al massimo livello. E Lassu che stanno perdendo il controllo della situazione. In altre parole, bisogna andare dritti al vertice. Bisogna fare fuori il numero uno. In altre paro.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 38400d4 | Is this a mild winter or a harsh winter? | Don DeLillo | ||
| c83742a | He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The palest thought carried an anxious shadow. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e445e34 | Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there wh.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 586463a | This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement about time, about all the densities of being and experience, it's time disguised, it's light-up time, shifting smoky time tricked out as some locus of stable arrangement. When people use that term they're talking about the way things used to be b.. | history past speech the-united-states time | Don DeLillo | |
| f064531 | Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen. | music writing | Don DeLillo | |
| 86a9c4e | Why don't you want to be Jewish anymore?" "I'm tired of the guilt. That enormous nagging historical guilt." "What guilt?" "The guilt of being innocent victims." | Don DeLillo | ||
| eba3806 | If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things. | time | Don DeLillo | |
| 1a264d4 | Television. Maybe it was all a study in the art of mummification. The effect of the medium is so evanescent that those who work in its time apparatus feel the need to preserve themselves, delivering their bodies to be lacquered and trussed, sprayed with the rarest of pressurized jellies, all to one end, a release from the perilous context of time. This is their only vanity, to expect to dwell forever in hermetic sub-corridors, free of every.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 651efcd | Do you know why I believe in the novel? It's a democratic shout. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. I believe this, George. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice and luck out and do it. Something so angelic it makes your jaw hang open. The spray of talent, the spray of ideas. One thing unlike another, one voice unlike the next. Ambi.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 30bebeb | What are the people like? Do the women wear plaid skirts, cable-knit sweaters? Are the men in hacking jackets? What's a hacking jacket?" "They've grown comfortable with their money," I said. "They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little." "I have trouble imagining death at that income level," she said. "Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1670cb8 | Some good-bad nights I spent, loving my self-hatred. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3cf8169 | There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c41c435 | This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0663461 | Pleasure is not diversion but urgent life, a social order perceived as temporary. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9f7dc0b | Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 01209df | In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the automated teller machine to check my balance. I inserted my card, entered my secret code, tapped out my request. The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate, feebly arrived at after long searches through documents, tormented arithmetic. Waves of relief and gratitude flowed over me. The system had blessed my life. I felt its support and approval. The system hardw.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3364428 | When I get real high I can feel the space between sounds. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f8b0b94 | I see my son in the small tumult of the moment. He knows he has to handle this alone and does it conscientiously enough, shaking the man's hand, nodding madly. He is not experienced at hearty rapport, of course, but his effort is meticulous and touching. He knows the man's pleasure is important. He has seen this everywhere on the island and he has listened to his mother. We must be more precise in the details of our responses. This is how w.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7f9537e | At first it was only a nuisance. Now it's a nuisance that threatens to become a way of life. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7aa684f | It is the neon epic of Saturday night. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 673bc82 | Once you start a file, Delphine, it's just a matter of time before the material comes pouring in. Notes, lists, photos, rumors. Every bit and piece and whisper in the world that doesn't have a life until someone comes along to collect it. It's all been waiting just for you. | Don DeLillo | ||
| caaeabc | Sometimes it was hard to say things. Things were so complicated. People might resent what you said. They might use your remarks against you. They might take you seriously and act upon your words, actually do something. They might not even hear you, which perhaps was the only thing worth hoping for. But it was more complicated than that. The sheer effort of speaking. Easier to stay apart, leave things as they are, avoid responsibility for re.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 67011d8 | Shoes are like people. They adjust to situations. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d7aef15 | I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors. We | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6327b2b | I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter's inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to country. He did not talk so much as narrate. He traced a wavy line, his, and there was usually someone willing to be the random body that he told his stories to. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 80e17cd | I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b545872 | Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 45964b3 | It was the best kind of class to have in the afternoon, an exercise in almost pure language, demanding nothing more than fractional consciousness since there wasn't the slightest hope of understanding what those poems were all about, and we drowsed and smiled, happy in our own little angel-infancy, snug in our Thamesian punt, and when the sonic belch of experimental jets went ripping across the desert we came close to applauding the symboli.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2380a86 | Choice is a subtle form of disease. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2bd739c | We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not even that we're all the same. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6a5a493 | It takes centuries to invent the primitive. | Don DeLillo | ||
| af1b5bd | When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat. | eat eating eating-disorder overeating | Don DeLillo | |
| 5c9266c | She is the kind of of child who feels a protective tenderness towards her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2e3fbaa | This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 00b7c30 | In the afternoon I drank Coke and wrote poetry. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4cc1b21 | The only problem I had was that my whole life was a lesson in the effect of echoes, that I was living in the third person. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8e4c221 | Don't worry about me," he said. "The little limp means nothing. People my age limp. A limp is a natural thing at a certain age. Forget the cough. It's healthy to cough. You move the stuff around. The stuff can't harm you as long as it doesn't settle in one spot and stay there for years. So the cough's all right. So is the insomnia. The insomnia's all right. What do I gain by sleeping? You reach an age when every minute of sleep is one less .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ca3f81e | Where do you live?" "In the hearts of men," Sullivan said." | Don DeLillo | ||
| e9983c2 | All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2c6696f | There is a thing about the trust of a dog that makes up for a lot of heartache we take in this life. | pets | Don DeLillo | |
| bf93621 | He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. For a few lucky ones, that moment might not come until they were established in the pros. For others, it might come at the end of college. For most, it would all end in high school. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| d0129ef | Even if we choose to use the nonstandard notion of distance and thereby describe the radius as being shorter than the Planck length, the physics we encounter--as discussed in previous sections--will be identical to that of a universe in which the radius, in the conventional sense of distance, is larger than the Planck length | Brian Greene | ||
| 227ab63 | To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along. | doomsday | Brian Cox |