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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
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