"I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on."

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Samuel R. Delany

#Infinity Quotes #Eternity Quotes #Terror Quotes

“Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.”
“Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.”
“The more he cast away, the more he had.”
“The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together.”
“Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.”
“As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.”
“It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.”
“From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.”

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