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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Hardship
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Unless
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Knew
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