Samuel R. Delany Quotes
Top 74 wise famous quotes and sayings by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
To live within the tethers of desire is - again and again - to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason
Rydra, when I look at the night and stars, it is only a passive act, but you are active even watching, and halo the stars with more luminous flame.
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
He laughed. So you see, I'm not a nut. Not a real one, anyway. I haven't been a real nut in a long time.
All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes.
resumes.
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There
Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time.
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time.
If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We're going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and -
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).
It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.
Bitch, on that world, was what men called women they were extremely fond of or extremely displeased with when the woman was not there.
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.