"The night ... it is filled with ***** watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.”
“I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”
“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
“Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.”
“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.”
“Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.”

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