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Pain is just another form of information.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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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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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
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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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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
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Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
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Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
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You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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