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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."
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"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."
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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."
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"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
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"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
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"Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer."
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"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."
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"The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."
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"But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA."
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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
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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."
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"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
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"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
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
Movies
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
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"People will always make comparisons."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
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"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."
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"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
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