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Samuel R. Delany Quotes: As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
         

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.


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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.



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.



The truth is always multiplex.

The truth is always multiplex.



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

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



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Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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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