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Don DeLillo Quotes: And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
         

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?


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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.



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