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Don DeLillo
The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time. If we're not doing the big social novel fifteen years from now, it'll probably mean our sensibilities have changed in ways that make such work less compelling to us - we won't stop because the market dried up. The writer leads, he doesn't follow. The dynamic lives in the writer's mind, not in the size of the audience. And if the social novel lives, but only barely, surviving in the cracks and ruts of the culture, maybe it will be taken more seriously, as an endangered spectacle. A reduced context but a more intense one {...
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
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 of the Virgin, leaving blood on the basilica steps and then joining the crowd inside, the crush, so many people that there was no air. Always blood. The Day of Blood in Teheran. I need these people to believe for me. I cling to believers. Many, everywhere. Without them, the planet goes cold.
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Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star
There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.
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Don DeLillo _ Libra
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
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Don DeLillo _ Conversations with Don DeLillo
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.
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Don DeLillo _ Underworld
No one knows the day or the hour.
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Don DeLillo _ Libra
Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.
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Don DeLillo _ Libra
People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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Don DeLillo _ White Noise
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?
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Don DeLillo _ Libra
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.
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Don DeLillo _ Underworld
A couple of sportsmen taking their ease.
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Don DeLillo _ Libra
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 enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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