"The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb."

-- Diana Vreeland

#Important Quotes #Atoms Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.”
“I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would prefer to have been in this world and published fewer works than I would publishing the books that would reveal the process of the changes.”
“So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.17, Pan Macmillan
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.”
“Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?”
“We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.”

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