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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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