"The pulp hero, though he may be a……" — Samuel R. Delany
"The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip."
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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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Suggestion is a literary strategy.
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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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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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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
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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.
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
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