"Endings to be useful must be inconclusive." — Samuel R. Delany

"Endings to be useful must be inconclusive."

— Samuel R. Delany

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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order…
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly…
I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality…
Suggestion is a literary strategy.
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and…
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have…
It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody…
What you are will make you what you will become.
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the…
From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

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More Endings Quotes

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True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists… — Danny Boyle
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very… — George Clooney
The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles. — Jeffrey Gitomer
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could… — Kristin Hunter
Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be. — Unknown Author
In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories… — Jeanette Winterson
From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer… — Corey Taylor
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. — Carrie Underwood
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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