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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dcccf4 | When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 77a8bd0 | This is how I thought of it. An intuitive link, a reciprocal, one number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together, day or night, their product is one. | love romance | Don DeLillo | |
| c7a7e42 | These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3250814 | Their true lives lie below, even now beginning to reassemble themselves, calling this very flesh out of the air, in mail waiting to be opened, in telephones ringing and paper work on office desks, in the chance utterance of a name. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0f0cba2 | Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer dia apenas llegue a mirar. Creia estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar. | identity otherness | Don DeLillo | |
| 0865c94 | The job of the terrorists was to penetrate into our subconscious. This had always been the aim of writers, but the terrorists took it a step further. They were the writers of our age. Don DeLillo said this many years before 9/11. The images they created spread around the globe, colonising our our subconscious minds. The tangible outcome of the attack, the numbers of dead and injured, the material destruction, meant nothing. It was the image.. | images philosophy subconcious terrorism world-war-one | Karl Ove Knausgaard | |
| 4225a2e | Peace of mind in a profit-oriented context. | Don DeLillo | ||
| de78bfc | Perceived affordances help people figure out what actions are possible without the need for labels or instructions. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 658ae49 | The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. | words | Don DeLillo | |
| c50931c | I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is about the cell phones slotted in the desk chargers, the voice mail and e-mail--a sense of order and command reinforced by the office itself and the bronze tower that encases the office and by all the contact points that shimmer in the air somewhere.. | corporate e-mail | Don DeLillo | |
| d51b4c8 | Every lost moment is the life. It's unknowable, except to us, each of us inexpressibly... | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4b5c4f8 | We're steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3a7b806 | He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enrage Babette, either that or his need to confess it, and she hit out at him - hit out with the backs of her hands, with her elbows and wrists. Old loves, old fears. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 44b713b | I want to keep our intentions small and human despite the enormous work we've done and the huge work we have ahead of us and I'm sitting here with a propped foot and talking endlessly about my work when I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ea6d73e | It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2aaf967 | This country is toilet-oriented. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5a261b2 | Let me say about Molly. If bullshit was music, she'd be a brass band. | Don DeLillo | ||
| bc99bdd | For five straight days she drove out to the point, the headland, because the standing gulls that look a little dumpy on stilt legs become in their flight the slant carriers of all this rockbound time, taking it out of geology, out of science and mind, and giving it soar and loft and body, bringing it into their flight muscles and bloodflow, into their sturdy hammering hearts, their metronomic hearts, and because she knew this was the day it.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9891fc2 | There must be a type of weariness that seems a blessing of the earth. | Don DeLillo | ||
| db7dd49 | There was something about a long and low and open-space house with a lawn and a carport that made her feel spiritually afraid. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3f4e4f6 | It was like a class project in the structure of reality. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 167768f | On his fourth day with Castro he shot a government scout, aiming through a telescopic sight. It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormou.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8cd1712 | A couple of sportsmen taking their ease. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fa6c514 | The Chief of Student Welcoming writes that the school was created exclusively for youths of the underprivileged countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Lee wonders how they can think he is privileged. It is part of the general stupidity about life in the U.S. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ef74054 | That's what it all comes down to in the end. A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3aa93c9 | People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7037915 | Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 14a8166 | No one knows the day or the hour. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f226234 | We have a rich literature. But sometimes it's a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We're all one beat away from becoming elevator music. | novelists opposition revolution writers writing | Don DeLillo | |
| 141acc8 | 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 | ||
| 02f9b7a | There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1c07e14 | I don't like not believing. I'm not at peace with it. I take comfort when others believe." "Karen thinks God is here. Like walkin' and talkin'." "I want others to believe, you see. Many believers everywhere. I feel the enormous importance of this. When I was in Catania and saw hundreds of running men pulling a saint on a float through the streets, absolutely running. When I saw people crawl for miles on their knees in Mexico City on the Day.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b899382 | I just felt something pulling at me, nagging at me, a soft voice telling me to do it, to see for myself what was out there and make the journey before self-satisfaction crept in for good. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 854d950 | It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 0610a51 | But "love" is the most empty and overused word in the English language after "brilliant." | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 54204c2 | The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. The cook, described as a "chinaman," refused, so the cowboy promptly shot him. He was taken to San Angelo and put on trial, but the judge freed him on the grounds that there were no laws on the books making it illegal to kill a Chinaman." -- | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 1683678 | We don't have a large university that has thirty or forty thousand students in it. We don't have the art museum that some communities have and are world-renowned. When somebody talks about West Texas, they talk about football. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| d3998a2 | Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country--pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 49aa29b | saw no great social motive in the desegregation effort. It had nothing to do with true assimilation of the races and everything to do with percentages--how many whites, how many blacks, how many browns--little numbers that could be written down and submitted to a judge as proof that there was no longer any racism. "There's no integration," said Moore. "There is desegregation." | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 15a5425 | He and his teammates were the Princes of the City, only they were high school kids instead of New York City narcotics detectives, | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| d55ccea | The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. The cook, described as a "chinaman," refused, so the cowboy promptly shot him. He was taken to San Angelo and put on trial, but the judge freed him on the grounds that there were no laws on the books making it illegal to kill a Chinaman. For" | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| d672280 | What do Dukakis and panty hose have in common? They both irritate Bush. What's twelve inches long and hangs in front of an asshole? Dukakis's necktie. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 0c63ac2 | I don't want him to turn out like I turned out. That's my worst fear. I don't want my son to go through what I went through. It was horrible. I don't want that for him. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 311d408 | They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one. | H.G. Bissinger |