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The more things I threw away, the more I found.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
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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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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