Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for ha…

Don DeLillo
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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