"Sometimes you want to say things, and you're……" — Samuel R. Delany
"Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist."
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Samuel R. Delany
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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
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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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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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