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“Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.”

Quote by Samuel R. Delany

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Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany is an American author renowned for his science fiction and fantasy novels. His works are celebrated for their complex narrative structures, profound social commentary, and exploration of gender. Born on April 1, 1942, Delany's writing career spans several decades, and he has had a significant impact on contemporary literature. more

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“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.”

Pain Poetry Voice Poet Speech Weapons Fingers Lips Flesh Wounds Heal Ice Damage Wounded Precise Ruined Great Poet

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.”

Ifs Powerful Power Grace Please Servant

Book:Tales of Nevèrÿon

Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon

“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.”

Power Records Gains Garden Rewards Ginger Falsification

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.”

Knows Purpose Who We Are

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.”

Reality Fantasy Goes On Prove Contradiction Again And Again Prove It

Book:The towers of Toron

Source: The towers of Toron

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

Knows Strange Source Reputation Machinery

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.”

Thinking Humans Littles Fiction Comfortable Science Fiction Notion Aliens Unthinkable

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.”

Minutes Pure Survival Boring Spending Boring Life

Book:Tales of Nevèrÿon

Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon

“The truth is always multiplex.”

Book:Empire star

Source: Empire star

“I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.”

Trying Believe Stills Whole Three Figures Patterns Fragments Carpet Tease I Still Believe Hunkering Down

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany