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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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