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  1. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.
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  2. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said.
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  3. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    I would think of it with affection because of its scenes of fragmentary beauty, because it brought men closer together through their perversity and fear, because it enabled us to pretend that death could be a tender experience, and because it breached the long silence.
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  4. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.
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  5. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    I am a twentiethcentury individual. I am working myself up to a point where I can exist beyond guilt, beyond blood, beyond the ridiculous past. Thank goodness for America. In this country there's a chance to accomplish such a thing. I want to look straight ahead. I want to see things clearly. I'd like to become singleminded and straightforward in the most literal sense of those words. History is no more accurate than prophecy. I reject the wrathful God of the Hebrews. I reject the Christian God of love and money, although I don't reject love itself or money itself. I reject heritage, background, tradition and birthright. These things merely slow the progress of the human race. They result in war and insanity, war and insanity, war and insanity.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    History is the angle at which realities meet.
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  7. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates run off into the rivers and oceans. See carbon dioxide melt the polar ice caps. See the world's mineral reserves dwindle. See war, famine and plague. See barbaric hordes defile the temple of virgins. See wild stallions mount the prairie dogs. I said science fiction but I guess I meant science. Anyway there's some kind of mythical and/or historic circle-thing being completed here. But I keep smiling. I keep telling myself there's nothing to worry about as long as the youth of America knows what's going on. Brains, brawn, good teeth. tallness.
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  8. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    The pattern match begins with a search for a substring of a given string that has a specified structure in the string manipulation language
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  9. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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  10. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    When the going gets tough the tough get going
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  11. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished
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  12. Don DeLillo _ End Zone

    Exile in a real place, a place of few bodies and many stones, is just an extension {a packaging} of the other exile, the state of being separated from whatever is left of the center of one's own history"
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