Quotes by Don Delillo

Don Delillo

American Author

Lived from: 1936 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 20 november 1936

Quotes 21 till 25 of 25.

• The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

  ― Don Delillo
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• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

  Point Omega (2010) 17

  ― Don DeLillo
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• There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

  ― Don Delillo
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• We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

  White Noise (2011) 32

  ― Don DeLillo
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• What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

  Falling Man (2011) 73

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Subjects in these quotes:

• sweet-smelling
• distracted
• everybody
• reducible
• following
• possible

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