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Pain is just another form of information.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Pain
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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
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I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
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Facts are lonely things.
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
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I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
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I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
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People will always make comparisons.
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The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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We need time to lose interest in things.
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