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Samuel R. Delany Quote: “An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.”

101. “An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “I can think of no series of words that could appear in a piece of naturalistic fiction that could not also appear in the same order in a piece of speculative fiction. I can, however, think of many series of words that, while fine for speculative fiction, would be meaningless as naturalism. Which then is the major and which the subcategory?”

102. “I can think of no series of words that could appear in a piece of naturalistic fiction that could not also appear in the same order in a piece of speculative fiction. I can, however, think of many series of words that, while fine for speculative fiction, would be meaningless as naturalism. Which then is the major and which the subcategory?”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We’re going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and –.”

103. “Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We’re going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and –.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Truth is what’s important in the world. But is what’s important always the truth?”

104. “Truth is what’s important in the world. But is what’s important always the truth?”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Things have made you what you are,” she recited “What you are will make you what you will become.”

105. “Things have made you what you are,” she recited “What you are will make you what you will become.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.”

106. “From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.”

107. “Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “We are the ink in which are written other messages that we cannot even understand.”

108. “We are the ink in which are written other messages that we cannot even understand.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “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.”

109. “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.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “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.”

110. “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.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Katin tried to look reservedly doubtful. The expression was too complicated and came out blank.”

111. “Katin tried to look reservedly doubtful. The expression was too complicated and came out blank.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “We all live our lives from the inside of our bodies out, not from the outside in. Which is why fiction has the texture that it does.”

112. “We all live our lives from the inside of our bodies out, not from the outside in. Which is why fiction has the texture that it does.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.”

113. “I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”

114. “The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “When he’s connected up to your nervous system, you’ll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don’t be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.”

115. “When he’s connected up to your nervous system, you’ll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don’t be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn.”

116. “Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape subsumed the breeze and fell, to form further on, a brighter emerald, a duller amethyst. Odors flushed the wind with vinegar, snow, ocean, ginger, poppies, rum. Autumn, ocean, ginger, ocean, autumn; ocean, ocean, the surge of ocean again, while light foamed in the dimming blue that underlit the Mouse’s face. Electric arpeggios of a neo-raga rilled.”

117. “Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape subsumed the breeze and fell, to form further on, a brighter emerald, a duller amethyst. Odors flushed the wind with vinegar, snow, ocean, ginger, poppies, rum. Autumn, ocean, ginger, ocean, autumn; ocean, ocean, the surge of ocean again, while light foamed in the dimming blue that underlit the Mouse’s face. Electric arpeggios of a neo-raga rilled.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “When a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he’ll believe anybody who tells him how, right or wrong.”

118. “When a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he’ll believe anybody who tells him how, right or wrong.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “It’s only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent.”

119. “It’s only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you’ve held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.”

120. “All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you’ve held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Oh, the bright young people who come here, with their bright, lively imaginations. They do nothing all day long but think of ways to kill. It’s a terribly placid society, really. But, why shouldn’t it be? All its aggressions are vented from nine to five. Still, I think it does something to our minds. Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?”

121. “Oh, the bright young people who come here, with their bright, lively imaginations. They do nothing all day long but think of ways to kill. It’s a terribly placid society, really. But, why shouldn’t it be? All its aggressions are vented from nine to five. Still, I think it does something to our minds. Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!”

122. “What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Discipline that isn’t self-discipline doesn’t mean a thing to a boy.”

123. “Discipline that isn’t self-discipline doesn’t mean a thing to a boy.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “I will probably be caught again, because that’s what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more.” He shrugged. “Maybe I will not be caught again, though.” He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. “I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason.” “What is it, Butcher?” “Because I am,” he said softly, “and you are.”

124. “I will probably be caught again, because that’s what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more.” He shrugged. “Maybe I will not be caught again, though.” He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. “I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason.” “What is it, Butcher?” “Because I am,” he said softly, “and you are.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.”

125. “My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Ron’s muscles, she thought, were living cords that snapped and sang out their messages. On this man, muscles were shields to hold the world out, the man in. And something inside was leaping up again and again, striking the shield from behind.”

126. “Ron’s muscles, she thought, were living cords that snapped and sang out their messages. On this man, muscles were shields to hold the world out, the man in. And something inside was leaping up again and again, striking the shield from behind.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I had ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little myself.” He glanced up at the sphere of the wrestling arena aloft in the bar. “And they didn’t seem so weird or strange anymore.”

127. “I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I had ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little myself.” He glanced up at the sphere of the wrestling arena aloft in the bar. “And they didn’t seem so weird or strange anymore.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “Son, this whole town’s my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin’ all over the fuckin’ thing.”

128. “Son, this whole town’s my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin’ all over the fuckin’ thing.”

— Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Quote: “The inevitable is that unprepared for.”

129. “The inevitable is that unprepared for.”

— Samuel R. Delany

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