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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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