Samuel R. Delany Short Quotes

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Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

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You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

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

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You're not looking for me, you know. I'm looking for you.

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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

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We have to name ourselves first. And you don't know who you are.

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Yeah, nigger, you better grin. Niggers can't smile in this book.

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Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.

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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

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Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

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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's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

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Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don't you think?

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Pain... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

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

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Ah ha! the Spike said. I think we have just gotten down to a gritty—or at least a nitty.

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

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She simply has no concept of what's real and what's fantasy—did I say? She's in the theater.

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But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world.

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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

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Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

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As morning branded the sea, darkness fell away at the far side of the beach. I turned to follow it.

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Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.

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As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

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I must remember my own origins. Once I was as ignorant as you; I swear, though, I can't remember when.

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If you're going to do something stupid—and we all do—it might as well be a brave and foolish thing.

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I was born, the Mouse said. I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.

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We have done a tiny bit to free the darkies in this country. But the devil is still very much our slave.

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Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city …

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