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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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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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