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- Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo