Samuel R. Delany Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Ideas, Missing, Want

  Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

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  Track, Passengers, Sentences

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• You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

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  Travel, Cities, House

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jul 28, 2012

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• La noche... está llena de vigías bestiales, que trenzan las extremidades y los intersticios de la ciudad intemporal, portentos caídos, deidades consteladas que se desploman en cenizas y humo, vagando por las ciudades apócrifas, las ciudades de la especulación y del desorden reconstituido, de la inseminación y de la incipiencia, barridas por la oscuridad.

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  Dark, Night, Cities

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• You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

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  Hurt, Home, Color

  Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

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  Luxury, Suffering, Levels

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.

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  Men, Men And Women, Identical

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

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• I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Sexuality

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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.

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  Art, Kids, Somewhere Else

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• How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

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  Mad, Doe, Who We Are

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

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  Dolor, Largo, Suficiente

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

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  Reputation, Strange, Source

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, People, Creative

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• 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.

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  Problem, Hard

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

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  Attitude, Children, Gay

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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.

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  Husband, Home, Work Out

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• When what is is congruent to what is supposed, the reaction is functional and the mental processes competent. When what is and what is supposed have nothing to do with each other, the choice of reactions is random. Something tears.

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  Choices, Tears, Reactions

  Samuel R. Delany (2013). “City of a Thousand Suns”, p.45, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Art, Forgiving, Age

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

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• The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

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  Sex, People, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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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.

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  Character, Three, Action

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

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  Writing, Pay

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Linguistics, Humans

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• Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

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  Honesty, Cities, Strategy

  "The Mad Man". Book by Samuel R. Delany, 1994.

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• Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

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  Ambition, Rubies, Liquid

  Samuel R. Delany (1978). “Babel-17”

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• Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.

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  Interesting, Acting, Watches

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.358, Hachette UK

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