"The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Ideas Quotes #Yield Quotes #Secret Quotes

“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”
“I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.”
“When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge...”
“The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.”

Source : 1972 Interview in The Paris Review, winter issue.
“I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.”
“College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.”
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”

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