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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Don DeLillo
Past, Language, Amenities
Don DeLillo (2001). “The Body Artist: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

Don DeLillo
Mean, Past, Night
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Don DeLillo
Past, Nostalgia, Rage
Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Don DeLillo
Football, Thinking, Past
"Director’s Cut: Q&A With Don DeLillo". Interview with by Rafe Bartholomew, grantland.com. October 12, 2011.

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

Don DeLillo
Powerful, Mean, Past
Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Don DeLillo
Fun, Past, Looks
Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

Don DeLillo
Past, Talking, Fading
Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

Don DeLillo
Past, Race, People
Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

Don DeLillo
Fall, Past
Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

Don DeLillo
Photography, Past, Technology
Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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