{"author":"Don DeLillo","author_id":"Don+DeLillo","total_quotes":107,"quotes":[{"text":"You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["bravery"],"id":3498,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["couldnthavesaiditbetter","existence","inevitable-progress","inverse-tower-of-babel"],"id":4967,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["patriotism"],"id":6941,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"The future belongs to crowds.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["crowds","belongs "],"id":7876,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"I like simple men and complicated women.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["men","women"],"id":17971,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["age","ageing","fathers","robert-mccrum","weirdness"],"id":19127,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["city"],"id":20990,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["1985","fact","family","information","knowledge"],"id":24876,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["funny","satire"],"id":26685,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}