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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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