"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."

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"It's funny to be a critic."

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"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

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"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."

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"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying."

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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."

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"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."

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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."

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