"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

Explore more quotes by Don DeLillo

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

Life, End, Meaning, Measure

"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."

Man, Men, Company, Secrets, Want

"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."

Literature, Writers

"America was and is the immigrant's dream."

Dream, America

"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

Life,

"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."

Truth, End, Waiting, Writer

"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."

Death, Life, Idea, Eternity

Exlpore more Society quotes

"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Society, Blush, Man, Old, Pride

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Society, Government, Press, Will

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Country

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Society, People, Heart, Courtesy, Old

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Society, Old

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Society, History, Sex, Progress, Ugly

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

Society, Now, Poverty

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits

2

Standard

Customized

Explore more quotes by Don DeLillo

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

"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."

"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."

"America was and is the immigrant's dream."

"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."

"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."

"Hardship makes the world obscure."

"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation."

"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."

Exlpore more Society quotes

"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."