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A young child will open up a drawer on a dresser like this to try to climb up to reach something at the top. Or they might open up all the drawers, in which case a dresser like this becomes very unstable.


Don Mays

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DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS