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It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.
Samuel R. Delany
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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.
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The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.
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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
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It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
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I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
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I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.
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The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.
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The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
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Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
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