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  1. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant
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  2. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.
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  3. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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  4. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    The Chief of Student Welcoming writes that the school was created exclusively for youths of the underprivileged countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Lee wonders how they can think he is privileged. It is part of the general stupidity about life in the U.S.
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  5. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    On his fourth day with Castro he shot a government scout, aiming through a telescopic sight. It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    It was like a class project in the structure of reality.
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  7. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    There was something about a long and low and open-space house with a lawn and a carport that made her feel spiritually afraid.
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  8. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    Let me say about Molly. If bullshit was music, she'd be a brass band."
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  9. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.
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  10. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.
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  11. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    Don't we know when a death is passing in the air?
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  12. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.
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