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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
Novelist
Playwright
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Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Misinformation
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I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
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A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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