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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.


Don DeLillo

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DON MARQUIS So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS