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  1. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.
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  2. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    It's a Cadillac all right." "The Rolls-Royce of automobiles," Ottum
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  3. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    Billy couldn't recall ever having seen a blind man laugh
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  4. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    He's under house arrest aboard the ship." "On what charge?" "Heinousness,
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  5. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same."
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  7. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    Sometimes it was hard to say things. Things were so complicated. People might resent what you said. They might use your remarks against you. They might take you seriously and act upon your words, actually do something. They might not even hear you, which perhaps was the only thing worth hoping for. But it was more complicated than that. The sheer effort of speaking. Easier to stay apart, leave things as they are, avoid responsibility for reflecting the world and all its grave weight. Things that should be simple are always hard. But hard things are never easy."
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  8. Don DeLillo _ Ratner's Star

    Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to clutch to its hole. Dredged up and beaten. Blood and drool and womb mud. How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing. Dressed and powdered now. Engineered to abstract design. Cling, suck and cry. Follow with the eye. Gloom and drought of unprotected sleep. Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm? Return, return to negative unity.
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