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I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
Samuel R. Delany
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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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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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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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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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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.
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Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different
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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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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
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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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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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Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.
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I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
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