Don DeLillo

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. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#liberation #novel #work

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. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#death

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

— Don DeLillo

#death

He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#sexuality #rain

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

— Don DeLillo

#society #life

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#life #salvation #life

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#art

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing ↗

— Don DeLillo

#death

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) ↗

— Don DeLillo

#nature

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms ↗

— Don DeLillo

#eric-packer #love