Cities Quote by Samuel R. Delany

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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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What you are will make you what you will become.

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The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are…

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“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.”

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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

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“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.”

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“Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.”

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

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Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

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All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

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I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want…

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Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,…

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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