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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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