Samuel R. Delany Quotes

• The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Important, Criminals, Elements

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 20, 2014

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• 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.

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  Ejercicio, Pensamiento, Importante

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 26, 2013

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• The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hands, Humanity, Problem

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Nov 24, 2016

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• There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Beautiful, Hunting, Fire

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• 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.

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  Artist, Ideas, Should

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• The truth is always multiplex.

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  La verdad es

  Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Empire star”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Eye, Ifs

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

  Samuel R. Delany

  Trying, Different, Looks

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

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  Reality, Goes On, Fantasy

  Samuel R. Delany, Robert M. Williams (1964). “The towers of Toron”

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• Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Inspiración

  Samuel R. Delany (1989). “The Straits of Messina”, Serconia Pr

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• The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

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  Past, Tomorrow

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• 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

  Thinking, Bored, Three

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

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  Believe, Belief, Arguing

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

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• The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically 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. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

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  Art, Ideas, Magic

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017

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• Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Ashes, Gone, Apocalypse

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• 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.

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  Believe, Trying, Three

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Purpose, Who We Are, Knows

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• Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Writing, Errors, Mind

  Samuel R. Delany (2013). “About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• 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.

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  Art, Self, Promise

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 29, 2011

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• It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

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  Falling In Love, Mistake, Imagination

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press

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• La respiración es algo fascinante de observar en una mujer.

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  Breathing, Watches, Fascinating

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.138, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.

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  Real, Rip, Book

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 20, 2012

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• Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .

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  País, Lucha, Gente

  Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books

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• What you are will make you what you will become.

  Samuel R. Delany

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hysterical, Pretending, Authority

  Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Triton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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