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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Worth
Death
Nothing
Gratify
Gamble
Vanity

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