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Very Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
- It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the…
- I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
- 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.
- All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from…
- 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…
- 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…
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