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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: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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