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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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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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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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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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