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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

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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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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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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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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