The future belongs to crowds.

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Future Belongs Crowds

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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.

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Always Between Breeze Cracking

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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

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According Action Advance Aimless

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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

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Being Central Dead Enjoy

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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

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Afflicted Because Company Drawn

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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End Every Finally Gets

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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

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Concentrated Form Thinking Writing

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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

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Anything Embarked Explanation Life

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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

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Anymore Fiction Job Just

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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

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Church Event Moon Photograph

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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Arts Communication Four Much

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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

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Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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Abstract Been European Expressionism

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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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Catholic Childhood Last Sense

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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

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Always Work Being Belong

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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Always Begin Myself Recognize

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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Act Consumption Deeply Endless

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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

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Becomes Everything Face Little

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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

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Accident Americana Culture Declaration

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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

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Beat Deeper Down Integrity

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make

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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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Make Open People Powerless

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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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Cunning Exile Ideas Keep

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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

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Books Language Man Shaped

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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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Life Meaning Measure Modern

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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

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Affiliation Independent Influence Outside

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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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Advances Between Connection Develop

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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

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Force Live Moral Out

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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

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Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep

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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

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Belittle Created Mystery Something

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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive

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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

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Act Fantasies Massive Never

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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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Alone Concept Doom Invented

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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

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America Book Come Europe

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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

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Attain Eating Ever Form

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"35 Don DeLillo Quotes & Sayings

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

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

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Don DeLillo

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Don DeLillo

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Don DeLillo

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Don DeLillo

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Don DeLillo

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Don DeLillo

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Don DeLillo

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Don DeLillo

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Don DeLillo

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Don DeLillo

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Don DeLillo

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Don DeLillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Don DeLillo

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

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