Samuel R. Delany - Life Quotes

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I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little.... And they didn't seem to be so weird or strange anymore.

Samuel R. Delany

Suppose I was researching, not the life of some genius philosopher with his books and articles and a wake of articulate friends and acquaintances, but rather, a homeless kid in and out of mental hospitals for chronic masturbation and indecent exposure?... How would I even start?

Samuel R. Delany

And who's to say where life ceases and theater begins—

Samuel R. Delany

All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

You have to grow all the time, I said. Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people, that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least, it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy, or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life.

Samuel R. Delany

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

Samuel R. Delany

I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

Samuel R. Delany