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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.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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