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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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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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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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