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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
Samuel R. Delany
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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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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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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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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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Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.
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