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Something Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
- It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
- How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically,…
- I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big…
- I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the…
- The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more…
- But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth…
- There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why…
- Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In…
- 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.…
- It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of…
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