„Menschen, die Dinge reparieren können, sind in der Regel kleingeistige Eiferer.“
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Weißes Rauschen. München, 1984. Übersetzer: Helga Pfetsch. ISBN 3442462940, ISBN 978-3442462940
Donald Richard „Don“ DeLillo ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt neben Thomas Pynchon als einer der wichtigsten Postmodernisten und wurde von Harold Bloom neben Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy und Philip Roth als einer der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Autoren Amerikas gelobt. Wikipedia

„Menschen, die Dinge reparieren können, sind in der Regel kleingeistige Eiferer.“
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Weißes Rauschen. München, 1984. Übersetzer: Helga Pfetsch. ISBN 3442462940, ISBN 978-3442462940
“I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.”
Don DeLillo Valparaiso
Quelle: Valparaiso
“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
Don DeLillo Falling Man
Quelle: Falling Man
“When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”
Don DeLillo buch The Body Artist
Quelle: The Body Artist
“Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?”
Don DeLillo Point Omega
Quelle: Point Omega
“Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.”
Quelle: Don DeLillo's White Noise
“The more things I threw away, the more I found.”
Quelle: Don DeLillo's White Noise
“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise
“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise
“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise
“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”
Don DeLillo buch Cosmopolis
Quelle: Cosmopolis
“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.”
Don DeLillo buch Libra
Variante: What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Quelle: Libra
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise (1984)
“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.”
Don DeLillo buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise
“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”
Don DeLillo Point Omega
Quelle: Point Omega
Don DeLillo Mao II
Part 1, Ch. 3
Quelle: Mao II (1991)
Kontext: There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists... Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.