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1e54b56	Miracles share the landscape with death.			Don DeLillo
ba86999	We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they've been up there, the same two birds since bible times.			Don DeLillo
9523bdc	It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.			Don DeLillo
77b70a8	it referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.			Don DeLillo
346ed12	How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.		games children	Don DeLillo
6560428	The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.			Don DeLillo
48f5b66	A naked woman was amazing. He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off clothes or a beach blanket across the lap or sex in a dark car. This was her whole body naked in light, standing and lying and front and back and open and showing and then different when she walked, surer than he was, unclunky and smooth-moving, with parts that didn't bounce. She knew how to be naked. She looked like she'd been raised naked in this room,..		woman womanhood	Don DeLillo
cab1293	Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile up around you, the greater your equity, the stronger your power, the longer you live. This is the point of living in a high rise. To see the bodies pile up at sunset, the nostalgic hour, the hour of summing up, stirring the cocktails, feeling the great tower sway in the hot winds.			Don DeLillo
e9fdd8d	No, no, no, no. Who are you? What is this? Don't leave. They're leaving. They've left.			Don DeLillo
bfb4277	But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I'd never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was,			Don DeLillo
b813106	BUDGE (muffled) No,no,nono. NURSE BAKER I understand what you're trying to say. BUDGE A hideous scream. NURSE BAKER Exactly. BUDGE A cry of desperation. NURSE BAKER Perfect. BUDGE A strangled sob. A plea torn from my throat. What sound can I make to convince you I'm not the one you want? A disconsolate sigh? Maybe that's what you want to hear. The smallest human moan imaginable. A whisper in a corner of an unlit room, with curtains blowing ..			Don DeLillo
8aca584	Nei miei sogni scorrevano fiumi e peccati, occhi sbarrati di volti sommersi. Mi risvegliai nel silenzio e nel gelo, sotto l'occhio accusatore dei riflettori ad arco. La citta traboccava di persone in cerca dell'uomo o della donna in grado di salvarle. Puzzavo di sudore freddo, alcol e paura. Il loft mi sembrava sconfinato, un'immagine ripescata dal fondo sabbioso di un sogno.			Don DeLillo
c7cf634	I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."		grief humanity	Don DeLillo
75749dc	All sex is a form of longing even as it happens. Because it happens against the crush of time. Because the surface of the act is public, a cross-grain of fear and ruin. She wanted her body to remain a secret of the past, untouched by complexity and regret. She was superstitious about talking to doctors in detail. She thought they would take her body over, name all the damaged parts, speak all the awful words. She lay for a long time with he..			Don DeLillo
d15f96e	this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it." _Eric Packer"		don-delillo	Don DeLillo
db0b489	it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.		don-delillo	Don DeLillo
ec9af62	Poco tempo fa sono andato a pranzo con un amico. Si e messo a piangere. Voleva costruirsi una barca e salpare per la Tasmania. Io gli ho riso in faccia. Una settimana dopo gli e venuta un'emorragia cerebrale. Non siamo capaci di imparare niente dagli stereotipi che ci circondano, neppure che siamo tutti uguali.			Don DeLillo
ceda31e	Objects are what we aren't, what we can't extend ourselves to be. Do people make things to define the boundaries of the self? Objects are the limits we desperately need. They show us where we end. They dispel our sadness, temporarily.			Don DeLillo
64d9653	This is the point of Babette.			Don DeLillo
3da12bd	It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.			Don DeLillo
1518c52	lonely-chrome America.			Don DeLillo
f65bae1	Opportunity, adventure, sunsets, dusty death.			Don DeLillo
8a7462a	The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.			Don DeLillo
e4541a1	Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death. - (362)			Don DeLillo
fc841dd	You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity.			Don DeLillo
6fa7251	It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology. *			Don DeLillo
68c980f	I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.			Don DeLillo
2213abd	I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.			Don DeLillo
9af8cf7	How do we stand with others when the things that separate us are imposed at birth, when the separation haunts us and follows us day and night?			Don DeLillo
b46ab53	and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say.			Don DeLillo
3d9347a	This was New York. Every living breathing genotype entered his cab at some point, day or night. And if this was an inflated notion, that was New York as well. Two			Don DeLillo
a30306a	It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.			Don DeLillo
e003dda	Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.		reality perception expectations	Don DeLillo
b18f7bd	When she started back she saw a blue jay perched atop the feeder. She stopped dead and held her breath. It stood large and polished and looked royally remote from the other birds busy feeding and she could nearly believe she'd never seen a jay before. It stood enormous, looking in at her, seeing whatever it saw, and she wanted to tell Rey to look up. She watched it, black-barred across the wings and tail, and she thought she'd somehow only ..			Don DeLillo
248e704	The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.			Don DeLillo
ba476f3	I thought of women in other places, streets and boulevards in major cities, wind blowing, a woman's skirt lifting in the breeze, the way the wind tenses the skirt, giving shape to the legs, making the skirt dip between the legs, revealing knees and thighs. Were these my father's thoughts or mine?			Don DeLillo
82af7b9	Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point." I"			Don DeLillo
e556417	He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.			Don DeLillo
de400f4	He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems sited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.			Don DeLillo
b27b542	It seems that danger assigns to public voices the responsibility of a rhythm, as if in metrical units there is a coherence we can use to balance whatever senseless and furious event is about to come rushing around our heads.			Don DeLillo
b37812e	She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.			Don DeLillo
bb37243	What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to be dangerous.' 'And the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art.			Don DeLillo
4b6d275	Many things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values.			Don DeLillo
2cc57a6	I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have a job or not. I'll have a job soon, a good one. That's not it. I'm in awe of raising, basically, someone so tiny and soft.			Don DeLillo

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