Book cover: Mao II

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Mao II

Don DeLillo

Quotes

  1. Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

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  2. "There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated."

    Book cover: Mao IIMao II
  3. "Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror."

    Book cover: Mao IIMao II
  4. When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

    Book cover: Mao IIMao II
  5. "Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid."

    Book cover: Mao IIMao II
  6. The future belongs to crowds.

    Book cover: Mao IIMao II

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