# Quote — Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

> I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.

- Author: [Don DeLillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo.md)
- Book: [Great Jones Street](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/great-jones-street.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/great-jones-street/i-had-centered

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