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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
New York
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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