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I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human, " subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.Don DeLillo
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The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.Don DeLillo
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Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. Define coat, I tell myself. Define time, define space.Don DeLillo