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Don DeLillo Quotes

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 20, 1936

Topics

Fear Technology People Connection

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

People Hands I Can Talk Anything

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

Robert Ben Garant

Good You Teach Somebody Writer How

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature Reach Easy Sweat Within

I can't imagine being in a tour bus. It would be nice, but I think it costs $30,000 a week to rent. And I can't imagine spending what many people make in a year on a vehicle for one week.

People Think Week Year Be Nice Nice

My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.

Mother She Cancer Breast Cancer Had

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

Thought You Person Know Whole He

After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it.

Story Thought Powerful Way Air Gone

People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one, too.

Life Live Children I Am People Me

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

World Will Belief Capital Just Save

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

Best Peace People Tools Goal Middle

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

Richard Flanagan

Life Shadow My Life Dream Late Born

If this acting thing doesn't work out, maybe I could be a blogger.

Work Acting Out Work Out Maybe

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