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NOVELISTS > novelist > Don Delillo
To be a...
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 3 (1982).
-- Don Delillo, (Nov 20 1936-____), US novelist; His works include White Noise, 1985, Libra, 1988 and Mao II, 1991; won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1992.