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Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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