"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
― Don DeLillo
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Society
― Don DeLillo
More From Don DeLillo
- "In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act."
- "People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
- "A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn’t live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."
More In Society
- "Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."― Hubert H. Humphrey
- "My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."― Kenneth G. Wilson
- "As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives."― Robert Teeter