"I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and……" — Samuel R. Delany
"I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13."
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Samuel R. Delany
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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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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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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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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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More Adolescent Quotes
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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