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Famous Samuel R. Delany Quotes
“The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.”
“There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.”
“In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.”
“Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.”
“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”
“Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.”
“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”
“A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.”
“Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.”
“Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.”
“From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.”
“I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.”