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Pain is just another form of information.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Another
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
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The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
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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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There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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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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Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. 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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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
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The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Technology is lust removed from nature.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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