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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
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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Pain
Another
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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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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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Technology and violence are interdependent.
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The dead have a presence.
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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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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
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Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
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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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The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
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A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
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Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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