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  1. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    There must be a type of weariness that seems a blessing of the earth.
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  2. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.
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  3. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    В нашем столетии писатель вел диалог с безумием. О писателях двадцатого века почти можно сказать, что они стремились к безумию. Кто-то, разумеется, преуспел, и таких мы особенно уважаем. Безумие для писателя - это окончательное растворение его «я», последняя беспощадная правка. Это нырок в тишину, прочь от гомона вымышленных голосов.
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  4. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.
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  5. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    And this is what I mainly learned up there, that the Parthenon was not a thing to study but to feel. It wasn't aloof, rational, timeless, pure. I couldn't locate the serenity of the place, the logic and steady sense. It wasn't a relic species of dead Greece but part of the living city below it. This was a surprise. I'd thought it was a separate thing, the sacred height, intact in its Doric order. I hadn't expected a human feeling to emerge from the stones but this is what I found, deeper than the art and mathematics embodied in the structure, the optical exactitudes. I found a cry for pity.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    What about the Americans?" "Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.
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  7. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    I see them in the primitive silkscreen the brain is able to produce, maybe eight inches in front of my closed eyes, miniaturised by time and distance, riddled by visual static, each figure a dancing red ribbon. These are among the people I've tried to know twice, the second time in memory and language. Through them, myself. They are what I've become, in ways I don't understand but which I believe will accrue to a rounded truth, a second life for me as well as for them.
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  8. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    I was not a happy runner. I did it to stay interested in my body, to stay informed, and to set up clear lines of endeavor, a standard to meet, a limit to stay within. I was just enough of a puritan to think there must be some virtue in rigorous things, although I was careful not to overdo it. I never wore the clothes. the shorts, tank top, high socks. Just running shoes and a lightweight shirt and jeans. I ran disguised as an ordinary person.
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  9. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.
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  10. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins.
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  11. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    I'm at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space.
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  12. Don DeLillo _ The Names

    The mountains here contained a sense of time, geologic time. They lay in embryo, a process unfolding, or a shriveled dying perhaps. They had the look of naked events.
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