She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't wor…

Don DeLillo
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). Valparaiso, p.44, Pan Macmillan
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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. ✨ Don DeLillo: &#0 … ▶

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