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f9b0379	Everyone was a spook or dupe or asset, a double, courier, cutout or defector, or was related to one. We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.			Don DeLillo
db62eb8	The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.			Don DeLillo
593d12f	There's a neat correlation between the complexity of the hardware and the lack of genuine attachments. Devices make everyone pliant. There's a general sponginess, a lack of conviction.			Don DeLillo
cf1c69b	In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.			Don DeLillo
7122359	Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.			Don DeLillo
13e5457	Transient pleasures, drastic measures.			Don DeLillo
a02bc85	Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.			Don DeLillo
eed9e48	Embodied in objects was a partial sense of sharing. They didn't lift their eyes from their respective sets. But noises bound them, a cyclist kick-starting, the plane that came winding down the five miles from its transatlantic apex, rippling the pictures on their screens. Objects were memory inert. Desk, the bed, et cetera. Objects would survive the one who died first and remind the other of how easily halved a life can become. Death, perha..		sharing-life modern-world objects	Don DeLillo
00aa130	Fuck you. Show some amazement.			Don DeLillo
a55e18d	She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet here, a dead star there, with random waste between.			Don DeLillo
6e6662b	To have true socialism, he said, we first establish capitalism, totally and heartlessly, and then destroy it by degrees, bury it in the sea.			Don DeLillo
8a13d5b	Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world.		intelligence reconnaissance police-state observation surveillance technology	Don DeLillo
90dfd1c	The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time. If we're not doing the big social novel fifteen years from now, it'll probably mean our sensibilities have changed in ways that make such work less compelling to us -- we won't stop because the market dried up. The writer leads, he doesn't follow. The dynamic lives in the writer's mind, not in the size of the audience. And if the social novel lives, but only barely, surviving in the..		letters-of-note novel-writing novel	Don DeLillo
f6d18b6	Don't we know when a death is passing in the air?			Don DeLillo
5990d73	Moja dusze wypelniala litosc nade mna samym.			Don DeLillo
99250da	The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal.			Don DeLillo
a4cbb34	The sewer system is a form of welfare state. It's a government funnel to the sea.			Don DeLillo
df0ccf0	e tipico dell'adolescente immaginare la fine del mondo come un accessorio del proprio contesto			Don DeLillo
7d1acc8	mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese.			Don DeLillo
a15b88b	How much myth do we build into our experience of time?			Don DeLillo
27fe456	Old hospitals with saints' names are the ones you want to go to if you have cuts and abrasions. They haven't forgotten how to treat the classic Crusader wounds.			Don DeLillo
4dfb4ff	Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.		jfk conspiracy	Don DeLillo
3720597	No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.			Don DeLillo
2ecd43a	Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.			Don DeLillo
a5a2e20	Muitas vezes, a coisa que relutamos em tocar parece ser nossa propria salvacao.			Don DeLillo
56de46c	Eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.			Don DeLillo
0c4fac0	Murray says it is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.			Don DeLillo
a39c14d	The blank expanse is more powerful than you think.			Don DeLillo
d2e5832	Brian ebbe un attimo di illuminazione. Guardo tutta quella spazzatura in perenne aumento e per la prima volta capi in cosa consistesse il suo lavoro. Non in progettazione o trasporto o riduzione alla fonte. Lui si occupava di comportamento umano, delle abitudini e degli impulsi della gente, dei loro incontrollabili bisogni e innocenti desideri, forse delle loro passioni, sicuramente dei loro eccessi e delle loro debolezze ma anche della lor..		rifiuti spazzatura umanità garbage	Don DeLillo
867d915	This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.			Don DeLillo
fa68c04	Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.			Don DeLillo
0a92f10	I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered."			Don DeLillo
5b181d5	What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain. So what am I supposed to tell him?" "His name is Frank J. Smalley and he comes from St. Louis."			Don DeLillo
b237bbf	This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I"			Don DeLillo
238aa07	The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What			Don DeLillo
225a02f	We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I			Don DeLillo
ac65d27	How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?			Don DeLillo
340682f	There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.			Don DeLillo
21177e4	Quando tutto e nuovo, il piacere e tutto in superficie.			Don DeLillo
e6041e4	I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit." I"			Don DeLillo
ec98064	Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night flying down before you're ready. It's a terror. It's a bareness of the soul. He hears the rustle of nuns. Here comes winter in the bone. We've set it loose on the land. There must be some song or poem, some folk magic we can use to ease this fear. Skelly Bone Pete. Here it is in the landscape and sky. We..			Don DeLillo
e1c05b3	This is the whole point of Babette.			Don DeLillo
d5774ff	E depois? Voce nao fica se perguntando? Nao apenas o mes que vem. Os anos. - Depois nao tem nada. Nao tem depois. O depois era isso. Oito anos atras eles puseram uma bomba numa das torres. Ninguem perguntou: e depois? Depois foi isso. A hora de ter medo e quando nao tem motivo pra ter medo. Agora e tarde demais.		medo	Don DeLillo
803f0f9	Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.			Don DeLillo

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