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It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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