Samuel R. Delany - Love 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
What do you see, Captain?
Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under... the sun. I see Prince and myself.
Which is which?
I don't know, Mouse.

Samuel R. Delany
It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

Samuel R. Delany
Whoever heard of La-ing or Lo-ing somebody you're herding goats with, or laughing with, or making love with.

Samuel R. Delany
Always remember the objects you are working with. When you make a bridge, remember you are putting steel on stone and dirt. … Some day you will write poems to a little girl: marks with ink on paper. … When you are making love, you are moving flesh against flesh. That is the basis of all magic.

Samuel R. Delany
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Samuel R. Delany