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One Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
- 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…
- 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.
- It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is…
- Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say…
- In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind…
- I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms.…
- I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census.…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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