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“I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.”

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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“Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.”

Knows Wells Doe Hard Helping Home Faces Know How Husband Work Out Opposition Do You Know Anxious Appreciative

Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”

People Way Enough Moments Hands Lying Money Roots Fishes Soil Shakes Chickens Baskets Hacked Beets

Book:Tales of Neveryeon

Source: Tales of Neveryeon

“The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.”

Night Dark Cities Filled Rounds Smoke Fallen Disorder Ashes Timeless Speculation Deities Dark Night Extremity Roaming Portents

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”

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Book:The Fall of the Towers

Source: The Fall of the Towers

“Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.”

Nations Common Following Strain Hurricanes Gasoline Katrina Devastation Gallons Hurricane Katrina

Author:Paul Gillmor

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

Long Enough Pain T Pain

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“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.”

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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