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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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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Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
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I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
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