"Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future,……" — Samuel R. Delany
"Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different"
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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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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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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 Distortion Quotes
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
— Tony Campolo
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula,…
— Sarah Schulman
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When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence…
— David Korten
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We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have…
— Mark Hatfield
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
— Thomas Huxley
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
— Chuck Jones
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. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet.…
— Michael Lerner
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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
— Laozi
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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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