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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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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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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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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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