I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend th…

Don DeLillo
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world. ✨ Don DeLillo (2003). Cosmopolis: A Novel, p.174, Simon and Schuster
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