I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually noth…

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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. ✨ Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death. Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.
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He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. ✨ Don DeLillo (2016). Mao II, p.76, Pan Macmillan
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. ✨ Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death. Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

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