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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 past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
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I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.
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I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
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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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If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
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But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.
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I suppose the problem ... is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up.
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