Don DeLillo Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

  Don DeLillo

  Love, Sex, Mirrors

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

• Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

  Don DeLillo

  Meaningful, Laughter, Father

  "Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality - this is what I see and hear" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

• You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Lonely, Jobs

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

• We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Media, Age

  "I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

• Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

  Don DeLillo

  Age, Difficult, Reader

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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