Quotes by Don DeLillo

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

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"It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture."

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"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 who are powerless make an open theater of violence."

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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."

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