Don DeLillo
- Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film...You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
(topic: movies)
- Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
(topic: secrets)
- People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
(topic: sports)
- There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
(topic: weather)
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