"Libra" Quotes
"Libra" by Don DeLillo is a fictionalized account of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
fiction | 480 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The act of letting go requires an act of will, and the will to let go is paramount.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
The future is a set of possibilities, and each must be sensed and claimed by the will. Each future is a fiction that must be given flesh, and flesh a fiction that must be given purpose.
The truth is what you remember. Not what happened.
History is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.
The power of the imagination makes us infinite.
The future is an abstraction, a word. The past is real, and in the past is all the evidence you need.
The only way to write about history is to take the risk of being wrong. The writer should give the reader the sense that he is reporting events about which he cannot know the whole truth.
The future is made of the same stuff as the past.
The past is the future of the present, and the future is the present of the past.
