Don DeLillo: Frasi in inglese

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“I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.”

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Don DeLillo libro End Zone

Origine: End Zone (1972), Ch. 19

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984)

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”

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Don DeLillo

Origine: Conversations with Don Delillo

“The prospect of a humane war may be hideous and all the other names you can think of, but it's still a prospect. And as an alternative to all the other things that could happen in the event of war, it's relatively acceptable.”

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Don DeLillo libro End Zone

Origine: End Zone (1972), Ch. 16
Contesto: Of course the humanistic mind crumbles at the whole idea. It's the most hideous thing in the world to these people that such ideas even have to be mentioned. But the thing won't go away. The thing is here and you have to face it. The prospect of a humane war may be hideous and all the other names you can think of, but it's still a prospect. And as an alternative to all the other things that could happen in the event of war, it's relatively acceptable.

“I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.”

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Don DeLillo libro End Zone

Origine: End Zone (1972), Ch. 16
Contesto: I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars. Each side agrees to use clean bombs. And each side agrees to limit the amount of megatons he uses. In other words, we'll get together with them beforehand and there'll be an agreement that if the issue can't be settled, whatever the issue might be, then let's make sure we keep our war as relatively clean as possible.

“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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Don DeLillo libro The Names

Origine: The Names (1982), Ch. 4

“The future belongs to crowds”

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Don DeLillo Mao II

At Yankee Stadium
Origine: Mao II (1991)

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984)

“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984)

“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.”

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Don DeLillo Underworld

Origine: Underworld

“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.”

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Don DeLillo Point Omega

Origine: Point Omega

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”

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Don DeLillo libro Cosmopolis

Origine: Cosmopolis

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

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Don DeLillo libro Cosmopolis

Origine: Cosmopolis

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984)

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984)

“All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984), Ch. 6

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise