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Pain is just another form of information.

Pain is just another form of information.

Don DeLillo
Pain, Information, Form
Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.336, Pan Macmillan

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.

Don DeLillo
Pain, Reality, Lightning
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Don DeLillo
Pain, Ideas, Catholic
Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo
Pain, Self, World
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

Don DeLillo
Football, Running, Pain
Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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