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

Samuel R. Delany

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“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.”
“True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.”
“Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.”
“I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.”
“The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.”
“He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." â€œYes. He does.”
“Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.”
“I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.”

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