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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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