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Don DeLillo

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Pendidikan

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.

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Perjuangan

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

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Kebahagiaan

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

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Pendidikan

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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Keberanian

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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Keberanian

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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Harapan

The future belongs to crowds.

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Kreativitas

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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Kehidupan

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

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Kepemimpinan

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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Kepemimpinan

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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Kepemimpinan

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

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Kreativitas

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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Keluarga

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

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Kehidupan

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

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Nasihat

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

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