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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? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#end #how #life #meaning #meaning of

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#after #ago #buying #camera #debt

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

— Don DeLillo

#fantasies #massive #never #never underestimate #out

It's easy to demonize from a distance. ↗

— Rick Warren

#distance #easy

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fidelity #fling #love #lust #middle-age

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

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

— Don DeLillo

#cunning #even #exile #ideas #keep

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

— Don DeLillo

#independent #influence #outside #person #society

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

#alter #aspire #consciousness #deep #infiltrate

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children