Frases de Don DeLillo

página 2

“Nada existía a su alrededor. Solo el sonido dentro de su cabeza, la mente suspensa en el tiempo. Cuando muriese, no seria su fin. Seria el fin del mundo.”

“El sexo nos descubre. El sexo nos revela como somos. Por eso es tan estremecedor. Nos despoja de toda apariencia. Veo a una mujer prácticamente desnuda y agotada, necesitada, acariciando una botella de plástico que oprime entre las piernas. […]
Ella es el amor de su vida, su amante, su puta imperecedera. Él no tiene que hacer esa cosa innombrable que tanto desea hacer. Basta con que lo diga. Es así porque ambos están más allá de cualquier modelo de conducta establecida. A él le basta con decirlo.
-Pues dilo.
-Quiero follarte con la botella, muy despacio, con las gafas de sol puestas”

“De eso se trata con la tecnología: por una parte, consigue despertar nuestro apetito por la inmortalidad; por otra, amenaza con extinción universal. La tecnología es la naturaleza desprovista de lujuria.”

“Aún puedo verles en esa pantalla primitiva que nuestro cerebro produce, a unos ocho centímetros delante de mis ojos, miniaturizados por el tiempo y la distancia, desdibujados por las interferencias visuales, cada figura como una cinta roja que danzara en el aire. Todos ellos se cuentan entre aquellas personas a las que he intentado conocer dos veces, la segunda de ellas en el recuerdo y el lenguaje. A través de ellas, yo mismo. Son aquellos en lo que yo me he convertido, a través de procesos que no comprendo pero que creo que corresponden a una certeza absoluta, a una segunda vida tanto para mí como para ellos”

“Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.”

“I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.”

“I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.”

“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”

“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”

“When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”

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

“Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?”

“Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.”

“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”

“The more things I threw away, the more I found.”

“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”

“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

“Longing on a large scale makes history.”

“sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer”

“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”

“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.”

“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”

“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.”

“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”

“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”

“I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.”