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Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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