There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks…

Don DeLillo
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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