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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
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
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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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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
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It is all falling indelibly into the past.
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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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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
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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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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
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The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
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America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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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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