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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

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
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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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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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
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