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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

Don DeLillo
Country, Powerful, War
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Don DeLillo
War, Interesting, Soul

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

Don DeLillo
War, Technology, Realization
Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

Don DeLillo
Country, War, Men
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

Don DeLillo
War, Men, Glasses

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

Don DeLillo
War, Lying, Preparation

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Don DeLillo
War, Office, Vietnam
"Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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