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Quotes from White Noise — Don DeLillo

born 1936 United States

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11 quotes

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

White Noise (1984)

I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.

White Noise (1984)

All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.

White Noise (1984)

Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.

White Noise (1984)

To become a crowd is to keep out death.

White Noise (1984)

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

White Noise (1984)

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

White Noise (1984)

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

White Noise (1984)

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

White Noise (1984)

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

White Noise (1984)

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

White Noise (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Don DeLillo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.