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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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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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