We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.
("White Noise")
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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.Don DeLillo
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.
Don DeLillo
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
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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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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