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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Forever
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Inorganic
Back
Exhausted
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Field
Matter
Stones
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Consciousness

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