White Noise Quotes
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![Mark Haddon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1337988298i/1050._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
![Don DeLillo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401807364i/233._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
![Don DeLillo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401807364i/233._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides -- pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot. We stood near a grove of trees and watched the photographers. Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book.
"No one sees the barn," he said finally.
A long silence followed.
"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn."
He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced by others.
We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies."
There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides.
"Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. It literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism."
Another silence ensued.
"They are taking pictures of taking pictures," he said.”
― White Noise
"No one sees the barn," he said finally.
A long silence followed.
"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn."
He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced by others.
We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies."
There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides.
"Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. It literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism."
Another silence ensued.
"They are taking pictures of taking pictures," he said.”
― White Noise
![Antonia Michaelis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1373316697i/257093._CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
![Alexandra Bracken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1526461581i/2973783._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“Who sent you?” O’Ryan asked. “What was your purpose here?”
“To...to tell you...” The words didn’t sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. “To go...fuck yourself.”
― In the Afterlight
“To...to tell you...” The words didn’t sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. “To go...fuck yourself.”
― In the Afterlight
![Antonia Michaelis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1373316697i/257093._CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.”
― The Storyteller
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.”
― The Storyteller
![Don DeLillo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401807364i/233._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children’s games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“The white noise of an industrial and commercial society drowns out our ability to think.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
![Don DeLillo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401807364i/233._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?"
Do you feel heroic?"
No."
Then you probably aren't.”
―
Do you feel heroic?"
No."
Then you probably aren't.”
―
![Aldous Huxley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
![Don DeLillo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401807364i/233._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I tell myself I have reached an age, the age of unreliable menace. The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
![Clive Cussler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225620641i/18411._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Reminds me of that urban legend about hearing voices in the white noise of a television tuned to a station that's off the air”
― Plague Ship
― Plague Ship
“Each of us is a massive composite figure. We are constantly filtering a barrage of sounds and visual images. Newspapers headlines scream to gain our attention. The radio blasts out its top forty. Billboards proclaim the newest film stars. Fashion magazines tell us how to dress and act. Each day sprouts its insider news tidbits. Each news day the media mashes another international or domestic crisis into our mental pulp and soufflés the macramé of political scandal or social untidiness into edible sound bites for us mentally to digest. Inside each of us resides shavings from this visual and electronic onslaught. An unseemly deluge of external stimuli shapes our ego formation.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Americans’ love affair with television and tabloid journalism, along with their constant immersion in the vast offerings of the media and the Internet’s dynamic communication mechanism operates to distinguish the American psyche from that of other nationalities. The onslaught of visual information available to Americans operates to deaden their innate curiosity of the natural world and to numb their interior world. Instead of exploring nature and ideas, Americans demonstrate a proclivity to scan headlines, watch television and films, and surf the Webb in order passively to partake in cultural events. The immense amount of social and political news that the average citizen takes in is bound to reduce the attention span of Americans, especially citizens devoted to celebrity watching, the distinctive American obsession of ogling the film, television, music, and sport stars whom draw media attention and captivate the public of each generation.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
![Stewart Stafford](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547630381i/14583096._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Profundity and daring attempts at it are what separate our cultural touchstones from the white noise of daily communication.”
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![A.D. Aliwat](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673140163i/7415311._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
![A.D. Aliwat](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673140163i/7415311._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
“To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone.”
―
―
“I still imagine my death. Whenever
I’m upset about something, I
imagine all my friends, relatives
and colleagues gathered at my
casket. They are very, very sorry
they weren’t nicer to me while I
lived.”
―
I’m upset about something, I
imagine all my friends, relatives
and colleagues gathered at my
casket. They are very, very sorry
they weren’t nicer to me while I
lived.”
―
“As I get older I can see the patterns, the ugly corporate face behind the great machine. The sad and over competitive urge to be "loved or liked" on social media platforms exploited by their creators to create a frenzy of human need & desperate want. The system is an absolute con constantly exposing it's users (victims) to self identification and gratification only if they can collect enough followers to make themselves feel popular or complete. Instagram for example is an absolute shit show offering you the opportunity to purchase more exposure and get more likes.
I'm sorry but ... is this really the 21st century?
Are we becoming an " advanced" civilization?
No. This is the inevitable "white noise" of capitalist conformity playing upon human desires & emotions
just looking to make another mil. And its disgusting.”
― R A W: POEMS R.M. ENGELHARDT
I'm sorry but ... is this really the 21st century?
Are we becoming an " advanced" civilization?
No. This is the inevitable "white noise" of capitalist conformity playing upon human desires & emotions
just looking to make another mil. And its disgusting.”
― R A W: POEMS R.M. ENGELHARDT
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