"Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom……" — Samuel R. Delany
"Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not."
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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany has 41 quotes on this site.
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Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order…
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly…
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I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality…
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Suggestion is a literary strategy.
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Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and…
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It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have…
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It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody…
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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…
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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
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I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
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I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on…
— John O. Brennan
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of…
— Tony Campolo
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One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy,…
— Nick Clegg
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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world…
— Eric Alterman
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is…
— Jacques Ellul
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it…
— John Steinbeck
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