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title: "2 Don Dellilo Quotes"
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# Don Dellilo

 **2** quotes in **4** categories

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##  Quotes by Don Dellilo

> [“Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-dellilo/alfonse-invested-everything-he-did-with-a-sense-of-all-consuming/)

[Don Dellilo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-dellilo/)

[Getting ahead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/getting-ahead/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3e/don-dellilo-107382_getting-ahead_alfonse-invested-everything-he-did-with_973809.jpg)

> [“...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-dellilo/he-lived-with-the-consequences-of-self-discovery-and-i-suspected-this/)

[Don Dellilo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-dellilo/)

[Hardship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hardship/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32c/don-dellilo-107382_self-discovery_he-lived-with-the-consequences-of-self-d_1890446.jpg)

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