Don DeLillo: Frasi in inglese

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“The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.”

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Don DeLillo Underworld

Origine: Underworld

“He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.”

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“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise

“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”

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Don DeLillo libro Cosmopolis

Origine: Cosmopolis

“The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise

“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”

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Don DeLillo libro Cosmopolis

Origine: Cosmopolis

“We need time to lose interest in things.”

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Don DeLillo Point Omega

Origine: Point Omega

“It is all falling indelibly into the past.”

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Don DeLillo Underworld

Origine: Underworld

“Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.”

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Origine: Don DeLillo's White Noise

“To become a crowd is to keep out death.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984), Ch. 15

“I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.”

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'"An Outsider in this Society": An Interview with Don DeLillo' by Anthony DeCurtis, South Atlantic Quarterly, #89, No.2, 1988

“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.”

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Don DeLillo libro The Names

Origine: The Names (1982), Ch. 5

“Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.”

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Don DeLillo libro Rumore bianco

Origine: White Noise (1984), Ch. 14

“I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.”

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'The American Strangeness: An Interview with Don DeLillo' by Gerald Howard, The Hungry Mind Review, #47 , 1997

“Popular culture is inescapable in the U. S. Why not use it?”

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'"Writing as a Deeper Form of Concentration": An Interview with Don DeLillo' by Maria Moss, Sources, Spring, 1999