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As a prose writer, I work with language and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
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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There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.
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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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'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'
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