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Cosmopolis

Name: Cosmopolis
Author: Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo

Cosmopolis is Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel. It was published by Scribner on April 14, 2003.

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

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“Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.”

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“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”

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“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”

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“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”

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“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

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“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

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“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”

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“Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.”

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“sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer”

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“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

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“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”

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“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”

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“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”

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