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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
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"Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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Explore more quotes by Don DeLillo


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


"If I were a writer, 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. Lovely."
Work


"I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like."
Writing


"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
Power


"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
Truth


"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."
Inspirational


"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?"
Life


"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work


"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."
Man


"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Time
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