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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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."
"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."
"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."
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that 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."
"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."
"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?"
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
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