"We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming."

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Source : Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

Don DeLillo

#Believe Quotes #Following Rules Quotes #Grooming Quotes

“People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.”
“If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.”
“Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.”
“They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.”
“Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.”
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”

Source : L. Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz”, Lulu.com
“Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.”
“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”

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