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Don DeLillo Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
— Don DeLillo, Point Omega: A Novel
Tagged: Openness, Reveal, Mystery, Keeping Secrets
“The more I threw away, the more I found.”
— Don DeLillo, White Noise:(Penguin Orange Collection)
Tagged: Searching, Finding something, Attaining goals, Taking Risks
“He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.”
— Don DeLillo, Mao II: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, bedroom, Rain
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
— Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel
Tagged: Curiosity, Amusement, Lingering
“I’m not reclusive at all. Just private.”
— Don DeLillo, Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'
Tagged: reclusive, private
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”
— Don DeLillo, White Noise
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