"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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"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.“
-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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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
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"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
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