Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others… — Don DeLillo

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. In the old tribes the chief who destroyed more of his property than the other chiefs was the most powerful.

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