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We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
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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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Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
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