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Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Don DeLillo

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