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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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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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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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