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It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across the middle of... read more
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“Violence needs a burden. A purpose.”
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For someone your age, with your gifts, there’s only one thing in the world worth pursuing professionally and intellectually. What is it, Michael? The interaction between technology and capital. The inseparability.”
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There was no friend he loved enough to harrow with a call. What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.
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“Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.”
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You have something in you that’s receptive to the mysteries.”
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He didn’t know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut.
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“You’re beginning to think it’s more interesting to doubt than to act. It takes more courage to doubt.”
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People in free societies don’t have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It’s simply how we live.”
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“Don’t you see yourself in every picture you love? You feel a radiance wash through you. It’s something you can’t analyze or speak about clearly. What are you doing at that moment? You’re looking at a picture on a wall. That’s all. But it makes you feel alive in the world. It tells you yes, you’re here. And yes, you have a range of being that’s deeper and sweeter than you knew.”
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He liked paintings that his guests did not know how to look at. The white paintings were unknowable to many, knife-applied slabs of mucoid color. The work was all the more dangerous for not being new. There’s no more danger in the new.
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There was only the noise in his head, the mind in time. When he died he would not end. The world would end.
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Sleep failed him more often now, not once or twice a week but four times, five.
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This book is in Books Filmed By David Cronenberg. (community list)
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- Don DeLillo (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Country: England
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0330412760
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Picador
Country: England
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0330412760
Page Count: 224
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- Cosmopolis (IMDb): David Cronenberg, 2012
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