"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.“


-Don DeLillo

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

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