"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
-Don DeLillo
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"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.“
-Don DeLillo
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"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
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"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
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"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
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"The future belongs to crowds."
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"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
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"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
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