Samuel R. Delany Quotes
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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
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Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.
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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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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.