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“The kind of town this is I’ll bet they don’t even know what’s going on all over the goddamn country.”

“They see it on the box. It’s like watching the moon through a telescope.”

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 312). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“What are you stopping for?” I said.

“That’s all there is,” Glenn said.

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 298). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Automation is no panacea. We understand that in my father’s outfit. Systems planning is the true American artform. More than jazz for godsake."

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 265). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“Know what we call this weather back in Pima County, Arizona?” he said.

“What’s that?” “Rain,” he said. “We call it rain.”

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 236). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Beginning my journey of *hopefully* reading all of Delillo’s novels this year

"I clutched the handgrip, rested the camera on my right shoulder and walked through the quiet streets. Soon a small crowd was following me."

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 210). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Write to me with news of the archduke. Jesus I hate this kind of letter. If only I were less sane. I could write poems the size of cathedrals!"

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 165). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"We all have something we are trying to forget. If we’re smart we take off for parts unknown. But my father could not leave the house and I didn’t have enough sense to remain at the shallow end of the continent. So I began to swim."

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 150). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"The loft seemed endless, a scene lifted from the sandy bottom of a dream. A shape in the shape of my mother was forming in the doorway."

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 110). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“I give no credence to stories like that.”

“Only a fool would.”

“Well, I just wanted to get your thinking on the subject, Dave. I hope it turns out to be nothing at all.”

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 81). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Then I smiled at her foolishly and she answered with the unembellished look of a feeble nun who has begged successfully for money and found no hand quite willing to touch her own."

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 54). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“Let’s have lunch some day,” he’d say, and that would be the end of him.

DeLillo, Don. Americana (Contemporary American fiction) (p. 18). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

DNF. Don’t like books about depressed whiny rich guys. Sorry…