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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
Pain
Another
Form
Information

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Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
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I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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People will always make comparisons.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
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The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
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The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
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And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
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Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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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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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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