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Samuel R Delany Quotes

A number of things in ‘Dhalgren’ are just meant to function as mysteries. They’re mysteries when the book begins, and they’re mysteries when the book ends Picture Quote #1

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s Picture Quote #1

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal Picture Quote #1

Linguistics is very much a science. It’s a human science, one of the human sciences. And it’s one of the more interesting human sciences Picture Quote #1

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original Picture Quote #1

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on Picture Quote #1

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If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful Picture Quote #1

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards Picture Quote #1

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself Picture Quote #1

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it! Picture Quote #1

I suppose the problem... is that we have an inside and an outside. We’ve got problems both places, but it’s so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up Picture Quote #1

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal Picture Quote #1

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There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three Picture Quote #1

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished Picture Quote #1

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city Picture Quote #1

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They’re both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it Picture Quote #1

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen Picture Quote #1

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you’re doing something 60 to 104 pages, that’s a really big investment for an artist. So unless you’ve got someone who wants to pay you while you’re doing it or up front, it’s kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you’re the artist yourself Picture Quote #1

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Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that Picture Quote #1

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages Picture Quote #1

Babes, I am so bored here that I don’t think, since I’ve come, I’ve ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence Picture Quote #1

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence Picture Quote #1

Pain ... after you’ve lived with it long enough, isn’t pain anymore. It’s something else Picture Quote #1

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I’m a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight Picture Quote #1

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I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn’t black Picture Quote #1

You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .’ She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. ‘We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!’ Picture Quote #1

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you Picture Quote #1

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original Picture Quote #1

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently Picture Quote #1

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself Picture Quote #1

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A number of things in ‘Dhalgren’ are just meant to function as mysteries. They’re mysteries when the book begins, and they’re mysteries when the book ends (Samuel R Delany Quotes) It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s (Samuel R Delany Quotes) It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Linguistics is very much a science. It’s a human science, one of the human sciences. And it’s one of the more interesting human sciences (Samuel R Delany Quotes) All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original (Samuel R Delany Quotes) I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on (Samuel R Delany Quotes) If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself (Samuel R Delany Quotes) The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it! (Samuel R Delany Quotes) I suppose the problem... is that we have an inside and an outside. We’ve got problems both places, but it’s so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up (Samuel R Delany Quotes) As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal (Samuel R Delany Quotes) There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city (Samuel R Delany Quotes) But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They’re both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen (Samuel R Delany Quotes) I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you’re doing something 60 to 104 pages, that’s a really big investment for an artist. So unless you’ve got someone who wants to pay you while you’re doing it or up front, it’s kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you’re the artist yourself (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that (Samuel R Delany Quotes) A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Babes, I am so bored here that I don’t think, since I’ve come, I’ve ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Pain ... after you’ve lived with it long enough, isn’t pain anymore. It’s something else. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I’m a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn’t black. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .’ She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. ‘We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!’ (Samuel R Delany Quotes) It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. (Samuel R Delany Quotes) Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself. (Samuel R Delany Quotes)

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