"You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes."

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Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jul 28, 2012

Samuel R. Delany

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“I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.”
“We all look up to these strong women who we see in magazines and on TV, but it's even more empowering to realize that change comes at the smallest level. It starts with us. It starts with me and my best friend, who I'm out on a walk with today, hearing about the amazing things she's doing for her kid's school. It can be everyday heroes and everyday women who work 9:00 to 5:00 and have kids and still balance a healthy social life.”
“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”
“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”
“There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.”

Source : Letter to his wife Catherine Gladstone, October 12, 1845.
“I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.”
“I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.”

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