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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99ad3d7 | Et puis aussi, c'etait New York, ou les gens ne posent pas de questions. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9006302 | These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it's the poor and the uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters. People | Don DeLillo | ||
| aa4f311 | Billy couldn't recall ever having seen a blind man laugh | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3a464da | We watched him use his spoon to mold the mashed potatoes on his plate into the shape of a volcanic mountain. He poured gravy ever so carefully into the opening at the top. Then he set to work ridding his steak of fat, veins and other imperfections. It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c37c2f1 | The son of a bitch believes. | humor idealism | Don DeLillo | |
| bc237ed | This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it's like. It is worse than we'd ever imagined. They didn't prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver. Our fear is pure, so totally stripped of distractions and pressures as to be a form of transcendental meditation. In less than three minutes we will touch down, so to speak. They will find our bodies in some smoking field, strewn about in the grisly a.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ef92e85 | Chaque moment perdu est la vie. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 08d3d35 | Combien de commencements avant de voir les mensonges dans son propre enthousiasme ? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 290ff09 | I was living, in short, on the edge of a landscape of vast shame. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d482b0a | This is what long journeys are for. To see what's back behind you, lengthen the view, find the patterns, know the people, consider the significance of one matter or another and then curse yourself or bless yourself or tell yourself, in my father's situation, that you'll have a chance to do it all over again, with variations. He | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7d4fa2d | And this is what I mainly learned up there, that the Parthenon was not a thing to study but to feel. It wasn't aloof, rational, timeless, pure. I couldn't locate the serenity of the place, the logic and steady sense. It wasn't a relic species of dead Greece but part of the living city below it. This was a surprise. I'd thought it was a separate thing, the sacred height, intact in its Doric order. I hadn't expected a human feeling to emerge .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 38361f6 | We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9a581b4 | watched the coffee bubble up through the center tube and perforated basket into the small pale globe. A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human. It was like a philosophical argument rendered in terms of the things of the world--water, metal, brown beans. I had never looked at coffee before. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 409b613 | It's a Cadillac all right." "The Rolls-Royce of automobiles," Ottum" | Don DeLillo | ||
| a9a0c29 |
V nashem stoletii pisatel' vel dialog s bezumiem. O pisateliakh dvadtsatogo veka pochti mozhno skazat', chto oni stremilis' k bezumiiu. Kto-to, razumeetsia, preuspel, i takikh my osobenno uvazhaem. Bezumie dlia pisatelia -- eto okonchatel'noe rastvorenie ego < |
Don DeLillo | ||
| 653b2fc | Nie mam ciala. Jestem umyslem, swiadomoscia, samotny w wielkiej przestrzeni. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 403199e | Voce nao sente as vezes um poder dentro de voce?", pergunta Vollmer. "Um estado extremo de saude, sei la. Uma saude arrogante. E isso. Voce se sente tao bem que comeca a achar que e um pouco superior as outras pessoas. Uma especie de forca vital. Um otimismo sobre voce mesmo, que e gerado quase que em detrimento dos outros. Voce nao sente isso as vezes?" (Sinto, sim.) "Deve ter um termo em alemao que quer dizer isso. Mas onde eu quero chega.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b83805b | You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cross harmonies between nature and data. You taught me this. You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise. But you forgot something along the way. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2e7b991 | Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. Elm Street. A woman wonders .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ffadec9 | Televidenie - predsmertnye sudorogi chelovecheskogo soznaniia | Don DeLillo | ||
| f78cd9b | Nada existia a su alrededor. Solo el sonido dentro de su cabeza, la mente suspensa en el tiempo. Cuando muriese, no seria su fin. Seria el fin del mundo. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b7e3d0e | He writes about mud and death and he makes me hungry. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3d97854 | my arms on the cinder track. Kids came running our way, thirty girls in bright shorts, an improbable bobbing mass. The eager breathing, the overlapping rhythms of their footfalls. Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future. Simple things are doomed, or is that a superstition? We watched | Don DeLillo | ||
| abbccc6 | Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he would protect you. I understand completely. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 91cc89a | Marvin thought of his bowel movements as BMs, a phrase he'd heard an army doctor mutter once. His BMs were turning against him, turning violent in a way. He and Eleanor went through the Dolomites and across Austria and nipped into the northwest corner of Hungary and the stuff came crashing out of him, noisy and remarkably dark. But mainly it was the smell that disturbed him. He was afraid Eleanor would notice. He realized this was probably .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 81ae966 | We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. | conspiracies history | Don DeLillo | |
| 2b489db | The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down. | danger government power secrets | Don DeLillo | |
| f48db21 | All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. --Don DeLillo, Libra | David Grann | ||
| 96fa04d | Did you see what you just did? You took the coffee can with you to the counter." "So what?" "You didn't have to. You could have left it by the stove where you were standing and then gone to the counter to get the spoon." "You're saying I carried the coffee can unnecessarily." "You carried it in your ri ght hand all the way to the counter, put it down to open the drawer, which you didn't want to do with your left hand, then got the spoon .. | Don DeLillo | ||
| cabc967 | In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 90df8f5 | You don't know the connection? You don't know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet? | underworld | Don DeLillo | |
| 3d29f8e | There's a theory about deja vu." "I don't want to hear it." "Why do we think these things happened before? Simple. They did happen before, in our minds, as visions of the future. Because these are precognitions, we can't fit the material into our system of consciousness as it is now structured. This is basically supernatural stuff. We're seeing into the future but haven't learned how to process the experience. So it stays hidden until the p.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8788df0 | THE BEST METAPHOR I know of for being a fiction writer is in Don DeLillo's Mao II, where he describes a book-in-progress as a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around, forever crawling after the writer (i.e., dragging itself across the floor of restaurants where the writer's trying to eat, appearing at the foot of the bed first thing in the morning, etc.), hideously defective, hydrocephalic and noseless and flipper-ar.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 3f63458 | Have you ever seen so many people," she whispered, "gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?" | Don DeLillo | ||
| b72d995 | In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 318f20a | A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear. | religion | Don DeLillo | |
| 33b4dcd | Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5ebd02f | He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. | Don DeLillo | ||
| bc65361 | Most of our longings go unfulfilled. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6993555 | Como esta indo o seu seminario sobre desastres de carros? - Ja examinamos centenas de colisoes. Carros com carros. Carros com caminhoes. Caminhoes com onibus. Motos com carros. Carros com helicopteros. Caminhoes com caminhoes. Meus alunos acham que esses filmes sao profeticos. Que ilustram a tendencia suicida da tecnologia. O impulso de suicidar-se, a sede incontrolavel de suicidio. - O que voce diz a eles? - De modo geral, sao filmes class.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 37cad95 | The flow is constant," Alfonse said. "Words, pictures, numbers, facts, graphics, statistics, specks, waves, particles, motes. Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that Cal.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5ea74f3 | Baseball's oh so simple. You tag a man, he's out. How different from being it. What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fc8528d | I moonlight, except there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d5df7c9 | Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events? | Don DeLillo |