Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. - Don DeLillo

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There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Long, Moving, Shock, Sometimes, Trust, Wear

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Book, Length, Novel, Three, Writing

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Freedom, Hero, Identity, Mainly, Survive, Writing

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated, Form, Thinking, Writing

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There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.

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I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

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There was nothing that said the road to popular vote. Hey guys, we won. You don't have to respond.

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There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg. " But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself. " We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.

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