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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

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
Speak
Away
Every
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Trap
Traps
Opened
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