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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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