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Libra by Don DeLillo

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If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

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“Since she seemed upset, I gave her some chartreuse and let her sleep.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3

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“He was speaking today on Daniel in the lion’s den, and he had come up with a phrase he liked, though he was aware of his own vanity in liking it, and he was repeating this phrase—“and did Daniel, in understanding his own sin, seek to be devoured”—”
― Hanna Pylväinen, The End of Drum-Time

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“You must make a friend of horror. The phrase, ad-libbed by a problematic star from a vanished era of cinema classics, came from a Vietnam war movie, but it was true anywhere and Germany was the place where Brando’s words became inescapable to me.”
― J.M. Tyree, The Haunted Screen

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“Dallas appealed to Wren for the reasons some people disliked it. At first glance unspecialized, covered with characterless concrete, flat, and landlocked, the city felt big enough to disappear in but not big enough to get lost in. It mirrored a quality of emotionlessness Wren tried to embody herself.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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“He lay on his back in his blankets and looked out where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In that false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

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