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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
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