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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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